Martin Heidegger Quotes

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• If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

  Martin Heidegger

  Anxiety, Faces, Existentialism

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• A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

  Martin Heidegger

  Boundaries

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• How one encounters reality is a choice.

  Martin Heidegger

  Reality, Choices, Encounters

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• We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

  Martin Heidegger

  Destiny, Expectations, Should

  "NCIS: Endgame". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Inspirational, Success, Destiny

  "NCIS: Endgame". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

  Martin Heidegger

  Humanity, Process, Manifest

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Thought Provoking

  "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.

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• Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

  Martin Heidegger

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.124, SUNY Press

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• Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

  Martin Heidegger

  Moments, Happens

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• Questioning is the piety of thought.

  Martin Heidegger

  Questioning, Piety

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• Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

  Martin Heidegger

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Martin Heidegger (1968). “What is called thinking?”

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• Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

  Martin Heidegger

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Martin Heidegger (1999). “Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning”, p.307, Indiana University Press

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• Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

  Martin Heidegger

  Agony, Longing

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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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  Home, Dwelling, Creating

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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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Writing, Men, Facts

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• Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

  Martin Heidegger

  Death, Truth, Philosophical

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• We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

  Martin Heidegger

  Space, Speak

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• Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Transcendence

  Martin Heidegger (1969). “The essence of reasons”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Creative, Needs

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• The possible ranks higher than the actual.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Higher

  "Being and Time". Book by Martin Heidegger. Introduction to the book, 1927.

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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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Essence, Today

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

  Martin Heidegger

  Night, Evil, Faces

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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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Thinking, Reason, Century

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• The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

  Martin Heidegger

  Independent, Thinking, Thinker

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

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