How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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