Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Nature has no history.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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