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Martin Heidegger Quote: “No goal given to this humanity reaches what is essential. But the Americans take this state of nullity as the promise for their future, since they indeed nullify everything in the semblance of universal “happiness”. Americanism is the pinnacle of nihilism.”

151. “No goal given to this humanity reaches what is essential. But the Americans take this state of nullity as the promise for their future, since they indeed nullify everything in the semblance of universal “happiness”. Americanism is the pinnacle of nihilism.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Nietzsche did track down Platonism in its most covert form: Christianity and its secularizations are thoroughly “Platonism for the people”.”

152. “Nietzsche did track down Platonism in its most covert form: Christianity and its secularizations are thoroughly “Platonism for the people”.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “I dwell, you dwell. The way in which you are and I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is Buan, dwelling. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.”

153. “I dwell, you dwell. The way in which you are and I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is Buan, dwelling. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “The truth of beyng is the beyng of truth – said in this way, it sounds like an artificial and forced reversal and, at most, like a seduction to a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by “decision.”

154. “The truth of beyng is the beyng of truth – said in this way, it sounds like an artificial and forced reversal and, at most, like a seduction to a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by “decision.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, perhaps not even in terms of the character of signification. Language is the clearing-concealing advent of Being itself.”

155. “In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, perhaps not even in terms of the character of signification. Language is the clearing-concealing advent of Being itself.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Through the old word bauen, we fnd the answer: ich bin really means I dwell. The way in which I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is buan, dwelling. To be a human means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.”

156. “Through the old word bauen, we fnd the answer: ich bin really means I dwell. The way in which I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is buan, dwelling. To be a human means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “What is decision anyway?”

157. “What is decision anyway?”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.”

158. “Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.”

159. “Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.”

160. “Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “If God, as the supra-sensory ground and goal, of all reality, is dead; if the supra-sensory world of the Ideas has suffered the loss of its obligatory, and above it, its vitalizing and up-building power, then nothing more remains to which Man can cling, and by which he can orient himself.”

161. “If God, as the supra-sensory ground and goal, of all reality, is dead; if the supra-sensory world of the Ideas has suffered the loss of its obligatory, and above it, its vitalizing and up-building power, then nothing more remains to which Man can cling, and by which he can orient himself.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Humans act as though we were the creators and masters of language, while in fact language remains the master of us. Perhaps it is, before all else, humankind’s distortion of this relation of dominance that drives our nature into alienation.”

162. “Humans act as though we were the creators and masters of language, while in fact language remains the master of us. Perhaps it is, before all else, humankind’s distortion of this relation of dominance that drives our nature into alienation.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug’s void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel’s thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.”

163. “From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug’s void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel’s thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “The African Sahara is only one kind of wasteland. The devastation of the earth can easily go hand in hand with a guaranteed supreme living standard for man, and just as easily with the organized establishment of a uniform state of happiness for all men.”

164. “The African Sahara is only one kind of wasteland. The devastation of the earth can easily go hand in hand with a guaranteed supreme living standard for man, and just as easily with the organized establishment of a uniform state of happiness for all men.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche’s, is Christian.”

165. “All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche’s, is Christian.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”

166. “Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “The most frightful jubilation must be the dying of a god. Only the human being “has” the distinction of standing in front of death, because the human being is steadfastly in Beyng; death the highest testimony to Beyng.”

167. “The most frightful jubilation must be the dying of a god. Only the human being “has” the distinction of standing in front of death, because the human being is steadfastly in Beyng; death the highest testimony to Beyng.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavor. Only a god can save us.”

168. “If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavor. Only a god can save us.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Man is the shepherd of Being.”

169. “Man is the shepherd of Being.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “The rigorousness of restraint is other than the one of the “exactitude” of a loose, indifferent “reasoning” which belongs equally to everyone and whose results are compelling within the sphere of its own claims to certainty. Such results are compelling, however, only because the claim to truth is content with the correctness that comes from deduction and from insertion into a regulated and calculable order.”

170. “The rigorousness of restraint is other than the one of the “exactitude” of a loose, indifferent “reasoning” which belongs equally to everyone and whose results are compelling within the sphere of its own claims to certainty. Such results are compelling, however, only because the claim to truth is content with the correctness that comes from deduction and from insertion into a regulated and calculable order.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “By publicness everything gets obscured, and what has thus been covered up gets passed off as something familiar and accessible to everyone.”

171. “By publicness everything gets obscured, and what has thus been covered up gets passed off as something familiar and accessible to everyone.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “In der Region, in der alles, was gefunden wird, im Lichte der Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehung dargestellt wird, kann selbst Gott seine Heiligkeit und Herrlichkeit und all die Geheimnis seiner Distanz verlieren.”

172. “In der Region, in der alles, was gefunden wird, im Lichte der Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehung dargestellt wird, kann selbst Gott seine Heiligkeit und Herrlichkeit und all die Geheimnis seiner Distanz verlieren.”

— Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Echte Erinnerung ist Zuwendung zum unerschlossenen Inwendigen des Gewesenen. Echtes Erinnern ist ein Ahnen.”

173. “Echte Erinnerung ist Zuwendung zum unerschlossenen Inwendigen des Gewesenen. Echtes Erinnern ist ein Ahnen.”

— Martin Heidegger

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