Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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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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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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