Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly within metaphysics does logic exist.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Only a god can save us.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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