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• The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Technology, Essence

  1949 'The Question Concerning Technology', collected in Basic Writings (1977).

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• This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

  Martin Heidegger

  Existentialism, Characteristics

  "Martin Heidegger". Book by Martin Heidegger (p. 87), 1978.

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Animal, Body

  "Letter on Humanism". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1947.

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• In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

  Martin Heidegger

  Art, Mean, Shoes

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Moving, Philosophical, Historical

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• Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

  Martin Heidegger

  Doe, Facts, Existentialism

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.11, SUNY Press

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Distance, Two, Space

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Long, Masters

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• The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

  Martin Heidegger

  World, Body, Way

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• The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

  Martin Heidegger

  Song, Land, Names

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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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Thinking, Metaphysics, Term

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

  Martin Heidegger

  Average, Understanding, Way

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.5, SUNY Press

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Ego, Subjectivity, Consciousness

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• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Doe, Matter, Critique

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

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• Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

  Martin Heidegger

  Essence, Firsts, States

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

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