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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
Poet
University Teacher
Meßkirch
Heidegger
Choices
Reality
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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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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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Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
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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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So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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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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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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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
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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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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
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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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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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Thus phenomenology means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.
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