The great collapses, the small remains forever.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe great collapses, the small remains forever.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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