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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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