Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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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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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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