questioning (n.) is a path one must clear for himself with no destination in mind.

Martin Heidegger on Questioning

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Prudent questioning is the half of knowledge.

makes one superior to the one who answers.

He who answers is inferior to the one who asks the question (saying)

is courageous --- Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions.

is powerful --- Tear off the veil of doubt by questions.

 brings us closer to God than when we think we have the answers.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

is a path one must clear for himself with no destination in mind.

No, for Heidegger questioning is a way or path of thinking each one must clear for himself with no certain destination in mind' (Gray in Heidegger 1954: xiii)

is the careful translation of astonishment into action.

the font of genuine thought is astonishment... astonishment at and before being. Its unfolding is that careful translation of astonishment into action which is questioning.

is always guided by the threefold temporal structure; the basis on which we ask the question (past), that which we are asking to discover something (present), and that which is to be found out by the asking (future).

There follows Heidegger’s famous but somewhat tedious claim that every question has three parts: that which is asked about, that which is interrogated, and that which is to be found out by the asking. (The elegance of the original German trio cannot be reproduced in English: das Gefragte, das Befragte, das Erfragte.) Few passages in Heidegger strike beginners as more dazzlingly subtle than this one. But on closer examination, we simply have our old friend the threefold temporal structure. Every question analyzes something that is already given to us (past: the interrogated), in order to find out something new (future: that which is to be found out), with the resulting combination giving us the question as a whole (present: that which is asked about).

is only possible because Dasein “nihilates” beings by rising above them and seeing that they are not all that they claimed to be, or perhaps that they are more than they claimed to be—by grasping them in their deeper being instead of just taking them at face value.

Ultimately, this means that Dasein is a creature of nothingness. Dasein “nihilates” beings by rising above them and seeing that they are not all that they claimed to be, or perhaps that they are more than they claimed to be—by grasping them in their deeper being instead of just taking them at face value. Only because Dasein transcends and nihilates can Dasein ever ask “why?” about anything. The question “why?” obviously requires transcendence, since when we ask “why?” we are passing beyond whatever is immediately given and looking for a deeper, underlying ground.

is the piety of thought; providing an answer to the question of Being is less important than awakening us to it, and using it to bring us face to face with the riddles of our own history.

In a Heideggerian formula: "questioning is the piety of thought". 5 For Heidegger, providing an answer to the question of Being is less important than awakening us to it, and using it to bring us face to face with the riddles of our own history: "My essential intention is to first pose the problem and work it out in such a way that the essentials of the entire Western tradition will be concentrated in the simplicity of a basic problem. "6 Heidegger is remarkable not for his consistent answers, but for his persistent inquiry.

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