Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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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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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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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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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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