The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREvery man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Nature has no history.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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