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.
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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Only a god can save us.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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