Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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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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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.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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