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 HEIDEGGERThe most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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