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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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