The possible ranks higher than the actual.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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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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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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To dwell is to garden.
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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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But what is great can only begin great.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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