Martin Heidegger Quotes

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism

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True time is four-dimensional

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Transcendence constitutes selfhood

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Only a god can save us

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Language is the house of the truth of Being

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Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being

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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

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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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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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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history

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

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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being

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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy

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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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