As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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 dwell is to garden.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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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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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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