Martin Heidegger Quotes

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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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Change Ourselves Thinking
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth

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