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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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