Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
-
-
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
To dwell is to garden.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
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 HEIDEGGER -
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER