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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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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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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Being is only Being for Dasein.
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Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
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If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.
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The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.
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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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We do not have a body rather, we are bodily.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth
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Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
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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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