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Nature has no history.

Being is only Being for Dasein

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

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.

Being is an issue for one.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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

Only a god can save us.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

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

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

What is decision anyway?

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

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

But what is great can only begin great.

Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves

To dwell is to garden.

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

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Mere anxiety is the source of everything

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

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

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

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.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

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

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.

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

True time is four-dimensional.

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

Language is the house of Being.

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

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.

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

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

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

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

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

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

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

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

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

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

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

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

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

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

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

The nothing nothings.

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.

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

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

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

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

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

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

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

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

How one encounters reality is a choice.

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

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

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

only he who already understands can listen

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

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

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

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

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