Martin Heidegger Quotes on Meaning

3 quotes

  1. In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

  2. Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

  3. The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aion? It plays, because it plays. The 'because? withers away in the play. The play is without 'why.' It plays since it plays. It simply remains a play: the most elevated and the most profound. But this 'simply' is everything, the one, the only... The question remains whether and how we, hearing the movements of this play, play along and accommodate ourselves to the play.

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