Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe never come to thoughts. They come to us.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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