Martin Heidegger
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"Martin Heidegger" was a German philosopher, widely seen as a seminal thinker in the Continental philosophy/Continental tradition, particularly within the fields of existential phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics. From his beginnings as a Catholic academic, he developed a groundbreaking and widely influential philosophy. His Martin Heidegger and Nazism/relationship with Nazism has been a controversial and widely debated subject.

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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

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.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we ponder this: How must we think? For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to...the coming to presence of Being.

To dwell is to garden.

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