We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. — Martin Heidegger Clock Copy Share Image
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. — Martin Heidegger Being Copy Share Image
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. — Martin Heidegger Animal Copy Share Image
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. — Martin Heidegger Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin… — Martin Heidegger Art Copy Share Image
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal… — Martin Heidegger Clock Copy Share Image
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.” — Martin Heidegger Homecoming Copy Share Image
“To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of… — Martin Heidegger Essence Copy Share Image
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both… — Martin Heidegger Existence Copy Share Image
“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings… — Martin Heidegger Philosophy Copy Share Image
Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and… — Martin Heidegger Business Copy Share Image
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself… — Martin Heidegger Mathematics Copy Share Image
“When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it transmits is made so inaccessible, proximally and… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees*… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to… — Martin Heidegger Art Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — Martin Heidegger Human existence Copy Share Image
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in… — Martin Heidegger Great man Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. — Martin Heidegger Order Copy Share Image
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein. — Martin Heidegger Determination Copy Share Image
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. — Martin Heidegger Action Copy Share Image
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. — Martin Heidegger Essence Copy Share Image
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control — Martin Heidegger Humans Copy Share Image