Language is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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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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