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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. By Martin Heidegger

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9} By Martin Heidegger

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. By Martin Heidegger

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. By Martin Heidegger

He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment. By Martin Heidegger

only he who already understands can listen By Martin Heidegger

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. By Martin Heidegger

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed. By Martin Heidegger

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. By Martin Heidegger

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.To dwell is to garden. By Martin Heidegger

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been. By Martin Heidegger

To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality. By Martin Heidegger

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control By Martin Heidegger

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors By Martin Heidegger

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. By Martin Heidegger

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

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. By Martin Heidegger

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise. By Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. By Martin Heidegger

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. By Martin Heidegger

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. By Martin Heidegger

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

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. By Martin Heidegger

The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust, By Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition. By Martin Heidegger

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

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. By Martin Heidegger

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. By Martin Heidegger

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering. By Martin Heidegger

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. By Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. By Martin Heidegger

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. By Martin Heidegger

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. By Martin Heidegger

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. By Martin Heidegger

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. By Martin Heidegger

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community. By Martin Heidegger

To dwell is to garden. By Martin Heidegger

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. By Martin Heidegger

But what is great can only begin great. By Martin Heidegger

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot. By Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything By Martin Heidegger

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. By Martin Heidegger

Only a god can save us. By Martin Heidegger

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. By Martin Heidegger

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. By Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? By Martin Heidegger

Nature has no history. By Martin Heidegger

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. By Martin Heidegger

What is decision anyway? By Martin Heidegger

Being is an issue for one. By Martin Heidegger

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak. By Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. By Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein. By Martin Heidegger

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. By Martin Heidegger

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. By Martin Heidegger

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. By Martin Heidegger

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. By Martin Heidegger

The nothing nothings. By Martin Heidegger

Has Dasein as itself ever freely decided, and will it ever be able to decide, whether it wants to come into "Dasein" or not? By Martin Heidegger

On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way, By Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. By Martin Heidegger

Everyone is the other and no one is himself. By Martin Heidegger

Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves By Martin Heidegger

Being is only Being for Dasein By Martin Heidegger

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build By Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being. By Martin Heidegger

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already. By Martin Heidegger

Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. By Martin Heidegger

Questioning is the piety of thought. By Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. By Martin Heidegger

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it. By Martin Heidegger

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. By Martin Heidegger

True time is four-dimensional. By Martin Heidegger

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily. By Martin Heidegger

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. By Martin Heidegger

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. By Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. By Martin Heidegger

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth? By Martin Heidegger

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. By Martin Heidegger

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment. By Martin Heidegger

How one encounters reality is a choice. By Martin Heidegger

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. By Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual. By Martin Heidegger