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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Only a god can save us.
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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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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