Martin Heidegger

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Biography : German philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1976
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Martin Heidegger - Quotes

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Man is the shepherd of Being.
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Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.
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question

Science does not think and cannot think; indeed, that is what constitutes its chance, that which secures its own way of proceeding.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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time

To dwell is to garden.
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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.
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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
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History

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
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History

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