Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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