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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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Meßkirch
Heidegger
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Reality

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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 order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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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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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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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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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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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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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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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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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
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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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