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Man Quotes by Martin Heidegger
- The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
- Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not…
- The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already…
- Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this…
- Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
- Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
- Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need…
- Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should…
- And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward…
- 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…
- Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle