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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
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Being is only Being for Dasein.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
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A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
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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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Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
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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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Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
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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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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
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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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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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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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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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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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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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