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Being is only Being for Dasein.

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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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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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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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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
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Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
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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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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 question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass
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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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We do not have a body rather, we are bodily.
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