Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Only a god can save us.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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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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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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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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