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 HEIDEGGERThere is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Language is the house of Being.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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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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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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