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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNature has no history.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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To dwell is to garden.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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Only a god can save us.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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