Martin Heidegger - Thought Quotes

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

Martin Heidegger
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Martin Heidegger
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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Nietzsche … does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.

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Eternity, not as a static now, nor as a sequence of nows rolling off into the infinite, but as the now that bends back into itself. … Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy means thinking being as time.

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If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

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