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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERIf 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe never come to thoughts. They come to us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNature has no history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTruth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERPoetically dwells man upon this earth.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREverything 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER