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> [“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine; it only gives expression to the understanding of the phenomenon of truth, as the Greeks already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/within-certain-limits-terminology-is-always-arbitrary-but-the/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

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> [What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/what-was-aristotle-s-life-well-the-answer-lay-in-a-single-sentence-he/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

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## Other authors on Aristotle

## More by Martin Heidegger

> [Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/language-is-the-house-of-being-in-its-home-man-dwells-those-who-think/)

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> [I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/i-take-great-pleasure-every-day-in-seeing-my-work-deeply-rooted-in/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/within-certain-limits-terminology-is-always-arbitrary-but-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/the-senses-do-not-enable-us-to-cognize-any-entity-in-its-being-they/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/nothing-is-everything-that-doesn-t-happen-at-this-very-moment/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/time-space-as-commonly-understood-in-the-sense-of-the-distance/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [“Vsakdo je drugi in nihče ni on sam.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/vsakdo-je-drugi-in-nih-e-ni-on-sam/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/what-seems-natural-to-us-is-probably-just-something-familiar-in-a/)

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> [The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/the-human-body-is-essentially-something-other-than-an-animal-organism/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/a-boundary-is-not-that-at-which-something-stops-but-that-from-which/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/every-questioning-is-a-seeking-every-seeking-takes-its-direction/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [“Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in the 'Oh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/anxiety-is-there-it-is-only-sleeping-its-breath-quivers-perpetually/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

> [The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/the-domination-of-the-public-way-in-which-things-have-been/)

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> [In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/in-everything-well-known-something-worthy-of-thought-still-lurks/)

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> [The possible ranks higher than the actual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/the-possible-ranks-higher-than-the-actual/)

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