Language Quote by Martin Heidegger

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“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”

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A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

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“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their…

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“Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in the 'Oh,…

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