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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
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Meßkirch
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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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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
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Being is only Being for Dasein.
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The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
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Thus phenomenology means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
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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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We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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True time is four-dimensional.
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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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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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