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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
Time
Being
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger
Fact
Language
Man
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Being
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Being
Language
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
Action
Decision
Future
Law
Now
Present
Reality
Responsibility
Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger
God
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Being
Man
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
Philosophy
Suicide
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Truth
Being
Language
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
Life
Anxiety
Will
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
Time
Thought
Thinking
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger
History
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger
Consciousness
Ego
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
Food
Agriculture
Bombs
Countries
Famine
Now
Production
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger
Men
Man