Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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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 poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Only a god can save us.
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