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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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