Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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 fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Why 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.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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