But what is great can only begin great.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREvery man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Only a god can save us.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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