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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREvery man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
-
-
Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER