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 that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself. - Martin Heidegger
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
- Martin Heidegger
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. - Martin Heidegger
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. - Martin Heidegger
Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
Questioning is the piety of thought. - Martin Heidegger
Questioning is the piety of thought.
How one encounters reality is a choice. - Martin Heidegger
How one encounters reality is a choice.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. - Martin Heidegger
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. - Martin Heidegger
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. - Martin Heidegger
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
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… - Martin Heidegger
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…
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