Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMere anxiety is the source of everything.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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