Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.
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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed
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Form displays the relation to beings itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one 'sees.'
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What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. National Socialism, but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
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Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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We do not 'have' a body; rather, we 'are' bodily.
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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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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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Spiritual superiority consists in deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.