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Being is only Being for Dasein.

Martin Heidegger

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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Meßkirch
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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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So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
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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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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 ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
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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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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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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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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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This characteristic of Dasein's being this that it is is veiled in its whence and whither.
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
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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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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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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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True time is four-dimensional.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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