The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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 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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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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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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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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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