The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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