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 HEIDEGGEREvery man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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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.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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