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Quote of Martin Heidegger - If I take death into my...


Biography - Martin Heidegger:

German philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1976
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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.



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Si je prends la mort dans ma vie, la reconnais et lui fais face droit dans les yeux, je me délivrerai moi-même de l’angoisse de la mort et de l’insignifiance de la vie – et seulement alors je serai libre de devenir moi-même.




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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

Become who you are!

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.





Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.











Quotes for: freedom


Quotes

Quotes about freedom:


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.











Quotes for: fear


Quotes

Quotes about fear:


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.





Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.











Quotes

Martin Heidegger also said...


Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Man is the shepherd of Being.





Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.





Science does not think and cannot think; indeed, that is what constitutes its chance, that which secures its own way of proceeding.





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





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.












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