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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Meßkirch
Heidegger
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Historically
Within
Whatever
History
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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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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
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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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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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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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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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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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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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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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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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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build
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This characteristic of Dasein's being this that it is is veiled in its whence and whither.
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Being is only Being for Dasein.
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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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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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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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