Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Nature has no history.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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