Martin Heidegger Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

  Martin Heidegger

  Essentials, Facts, Tradition

• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Thinking, Men, Long

• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Thinking, Tradition, Confrontation

  Martin Heidegger (1980). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”, Harper San Francisco

• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Essentials, Literature

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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