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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
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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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Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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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 think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
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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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True time is four-dimensional.
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
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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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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
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Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.
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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
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We do not have a body rather, we are bodily.
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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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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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