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

- Martin Heidegger

Thought, Reason, Begins, Centuries

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

- Martin Heidegger

Away, Constant, Which, Remains

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

- Martin Heidegger

Fact, Though, Were, Remains

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

- Martin Heidegger

Human Body, Other, Organism, Animal

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

- Martin Heidegger

Other, Being, Determine, Former

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.

- Martin Heidegger

Production, Same Thing, Famine

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

- Martin Heidegger

Within, Found, Historically, Noted

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

- Martin Heidegger

Human Being, Lord, Being, Shepherd

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

- Martin Heidegger

Man, Lord, Being, Shepherd

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

- Martin Heidegger

Result, Calculation, Understood

To dwell is to garden.

- Martin Heidegger

Gardening, Dwell, Garden

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.

- Martin Heidegger

Death, My Life, Will, Squarely

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.

- Martin Heidegger

Goes, Which, Means, Right Time

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.

- Martin Heidegger

Think, Extent, Explicitly, Metaphysics

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

- Martin Heidegger

Being, Method, Occurs, Establish

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

- Martin Heidegger

Proof, Mode, Latter, Possibility

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

- Martin Heidegger

Alone, Single, Born, Dies

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

- Martin Heidegger

Law, German, Single Thing, Demands

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

- Martin Heidegger

Brainy, Actual, Ranks, Higher

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

- Martin Heidegger

Making, Itself, Intelligible, Philosophy

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

- Martin Heidegger

Nothing, Why, Instead, Beings

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

- Martin Heidegger

Back, Subjectivity, Relates, Representation

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

- Martin Heidegger

Moves, Within, Itself, Certain

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

- Martin Heidegger

Language, German, Speaks, Merely

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

- Martin Heidegger

Think, Still, Means, Action

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

- Martin Heidegger

Truth, Language, Being, House

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

- Martin Heidegger

Time, Most, Still, Thinking

Only a god can save us.

- Martin Heidegger

God, Religion, Only, Save

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

- Martin Heidegger

Time, Say, Being, Rather

True time is four-dimensional.

- Martin Heidegger

True, Time

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