The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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 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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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