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German philosopher and a pioneer of existentialism, known for works such as 'Being and Time'.

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“Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent and therefore invisible attains its most radiantly apparent appearance.”

Thinking Truth Beauty Destiny Fate Being Thanking

Book:What is called thinking?

Source: What is called thinking?

“Man obviously is a being. As such he belongs to the totality of Being—just like the stone, the tree, or the eagle. But man's distinctive feature lies in this, that he, as the being who thinks, is open to Being, face to face with Being; thus man remains referred to Being and so answers to it. Man is essentially this relationship of responding to Being, and he is only this.”

Thinking Identity Man Being Appropriation Ereignis

Book:Identity and Difference

Source: Identity and Difference

“The things for which we owe thanks are not things we have from ourselves. They are given to us. We receive many gifts, of many kinds. But the highest and really most lasting gift given to us is always our essential nature, with which we are gifted in such a way that we are what we are only through it. That is why we owe thanks for this endowment, first and unceasingly.”

Thinking Giving Thanking

Book:What is called thinking?

Source: What is called thinking?

“If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.”

Ifs Thinking Tradition Western Confrontation

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

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

Thinking Knows Reason Century Adversaries

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

Thinking Stills Philosophical Thought Provoking Provoking Our Thoughts Deep Thought

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“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 Term Metaphysics Grounded

Book:On Time and Being

Source: On Time and Being

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

Thinking Mean Stills Enough Action Essence

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

Thinking World Stills Stars Sky One Day

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“The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.”

Thinking Originals Independent Dependent Thinker Great Thinkers

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”

Thinking Philosophy Philosophical Errors

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“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.”

Thinking Men Long Seems Natural Wonder Strange Source Tradition Forgotten Familiar Unfamiliar

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“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.”

Thinking Men Home House Language Guardian

Author:Martin Heidegger

About the Author

Born: September 26, 1889
Died: May 26, 1976
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 156

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Being and TimeRelated source material

Nietzsche: The will to power as artRelated source material

On Time and BeingRelated source material

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Basic WritingsRelated source material

On the Way to LanguageRelated source material

The Basic Problems of PhenomenologyRelated source material

The essence of reasonsRelated source material

An Introduction to MetaphysicsRelated source material

Bauen und Wohnen: Martin Heideggers Grundlegung einer Phänomenologie der ArchitekturRelated source material

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