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How one encounters reality is a choice.

Martin Heidegger

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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
Philosopher
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University Teacher
Meßkirch
Heidegger
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Reality

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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 should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
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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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This characteristic of Dasein's being this that it is is veiled in its whence and whither.
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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
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Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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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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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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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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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth
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