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“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”

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Martin Heidegger

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

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“Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.”

Way Today Technology Worst Essence Regard Blind Deny Conception Homage Chained Unfree

Author:Martin Heidegger

“From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.”

Knows Humans Home Today Literature Human Beings Essentials Tradition Instance Destructive Rooted Human Experience

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees.”

World Way Has Beens Possibility Decided Determine Affected Domination

Book:Being and Time

Source: Being and Time

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

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Being is only Being for Dasein.”

Author:Martin Heidegger

“In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.”

Wells Stills Known Worthy Well Known

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“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

“The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.”

Doe Matter Values Ought Highest Critique Imposition

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.”

Character Happens Views Nihilism

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art