As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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