Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBut what is great can only begin great.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Language speaks and not the human.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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