As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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 song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Nature has no history.
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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.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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