Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of 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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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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