Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe great collapses, the small remains forever.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERQuestioning is the piety of thought.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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