All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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 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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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