I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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