Martin Heidegger Quotes

• The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

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• Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

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• Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

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• Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

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• Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing

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• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

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• Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

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• We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

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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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• We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

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• True time is four-dimensional.

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• Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

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• To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The possible ranks higher than the actual.

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• The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

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• The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

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• The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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Birth:	26th September, 1889
Death:	26th May, 1976
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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