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The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden.
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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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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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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
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Who is to determine what the perfect is? It could only be those who are themselves perfect and who therefore know what it means. Here yawns the abyss of that circularity in which the whole of human Dasein moves. What health is, only the healthy can say. Yet healthfulness is measured according to the essential starting point of health. What truth is, only one who is truthful can discern; but the one who is truthful is determined according to the essential starting point of truth.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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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. Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering [Untergang] for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder. Only a God Can Save Us.
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Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.
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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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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.
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Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.
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Questioning builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics.
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Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.
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Those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed by "facts," ie, by beings. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light. They are also meant not to notice this; for thereupon they would have to be at a loss and therefore useless. But idolizers and idols are used wherever gods are in flight and so announce their nearness.
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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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Far from being, in fact, a commonplace event, death means our last opportunity, the core of our being.
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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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To stamp becoming with the character of being—that is the supreme will to power. (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being.
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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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The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aiôn? It plays, because it plays. The "because" withers away in the play. The play is without "why." It plays since it plays. It simply remains a play: the most elevated and the most profound. But this "simply" is everything, the one, the only... The question remains whether and how we, hearing the movements of this play, play along and accommodate ourselves to the play.
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We shall never experience our relationship to the essence of technology so long as we merely conceive and push forward the technological, put up with it, or evade it.
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The German language 'speaks Being', while all the others merely 'speak of Being'.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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Martin Heidegger
Born:
September 26, 1889
Died:
May 26, 1976
(aged 86)
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Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics, with a growing influence on Analytic philosophy.
Known for:
Being and Time (1927)
Introduction to Metaphysics (1953)
On the way to language (1959)
The Question Concerning Technology
What Is Called Thinking? (1976)
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