We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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Nature has no history.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Language is the house of Being.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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