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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (/ˈhaɪdɛɡər, -dɪɡər/; German: [ˈmaɐ̯tiːn ˈhaɪdɛɡɐ]; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century". Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".

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Questioning is the piety of thought.

Piety, Questioning, Thought

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

Allotted, Comes And Goes, Mean, Names, Remains, Thing

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

Confine, Sky, Stars, Thinking, Thought

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

Home, Men, Dwelling, Thought, Man, Spoken

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [. . . ] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

Dark, Despair, Example, Grows, Instead, Questions

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Conduct, Education, Impression, Real, Teacher, Useful

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

Acts, Facts, Man, Master, Men, Writing

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Agriculture, Bombs, Country, Essence, Hydrogen, Same

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

Everything, Happen, Happens, Moment, Moments, Nothing

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Born, Death, Dies, Man, Philosophical, Truth

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

Men, Creative, Needs, Speak, Melancholy

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

House, Language, Truth

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

Community, Men, National, Ties

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

Art, Light, Mean, Particular, Setting, Truth

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies. . . . they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

Body, Enable, Encumbered, Merely, Way, World

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

German, German Language, Language, Speak, Speaks

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

Thinking, Metaphysics, Term, Extent, Ground

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

Deficient, Latter, Mode, Possibility, Proof

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.

Anxiety, Faces, Existentialism, Squarely, Face, Life

Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

Considering, Fallen, Fashion, Matter, Philosophy, Running

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