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• Being is only Being for Dasein.

  Martin Heidegger

  "Being and Time". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Macquarrie and Robinson, 1962.

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• What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

  Martin Heidegger

  Anecdotes, Answers, Born

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• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Fog, Profound

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• Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Existentialism

  Martin Heidegger (2014). “Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition”, p.25, Yale University Press

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• We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

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  Body

  Martin Heidegger (1980). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”, Harper San Francisco

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• In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

  Martin Heidegger

  Well Known, Worthy, Wells

  Martin Heidegger (1980). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”, Harper San Francisco

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• Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?

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  Earth

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

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• Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

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  Latter, Former, Determine

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Mean, Night, Singing

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• he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

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• To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

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  Stars, Thinking, Sky

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• To dwell is to garden.

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  Garden, House, Gardening

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• Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

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  Dwelling, Ifs, Capable

  Martin Heidegger (2000). “Bauen und Wohnen: Martin Heideggers Grundlegung einer Phänomenologie der Architektur”

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

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  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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

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  Strong, People, Truth Is

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

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  Philosophical, Shepherds, Lord

  "Letter on Humanism". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1947.

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• Being is an issue for one.

  Martin Heidegger

  Issues

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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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  Philosophical

  "On Time and Being".

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• The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

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  Technology, Mastery, Humans

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• Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

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  Dark, Despair, Example

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• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

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  Self, World, Who We Are

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• From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

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  Home, Essentials, Literature

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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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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  Philosophy, Able, World

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

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  Destiny, Order, Leader

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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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  Mean, Names, Comes And Goes

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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