As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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