Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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 essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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To dwell is to garden.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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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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