Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
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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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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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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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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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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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We do not 'have' a body; rather, we 'are' bodily.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed
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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
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Being is only Being for Dasein
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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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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.