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“Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth”

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Martin Heidegger

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

“The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth”

Men Firsts Doe Technology Possibility Machines Essence Originals Threat Instance Affected Denied Revealing Primal

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass”

Technology Revealing Constellations Concealing

Author:Martin Heidegger

“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

“In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.”

Way Soul Light Happens Grows Fire Sparks Existential Dwelling Flare

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.”

Men Whole Existence All Things Profound Oneself Indifference Boredom Remarkable Remove Abyss Fog Here And There Drifting

Author:Martin Heidegger

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

Should Destiny Expectations Our Destiny Frontiers

Author:Martin Heidegger

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

Humans Technology Slips Mastery Urgent

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

Way Mean Persons Ends Humanity Treats Means To An End Categorical Imperative

Author:Immanuel Kant

“There is nothing higher than reason.”

Reason Knowledge Higher Senses Knowledge And Ignorance Categorical Imperative

Book:Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.”

Ifs Form Argument Mislead

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

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