A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. — Martin Heidegger Generosity Copy Share Image
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. — Martin Heidegger Astronomy Copy Share Image
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. — Martin Heidegger Care Copy Share Image
“One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}” — Martin Heidegger Business Copy Share Image
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow. — Martin Heidegger Destiny Copy Share Image
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank. — Martin Heidegger Art Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Agriculture Copy Share Image
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm… — Martin Heidegger Essence Copy Share Image
“...Dasein itself--and this means also its Being-in-the-world--gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself… — Martin Heidegger Learning Copy Share Image
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic… — Martin Heidegger Character Copy Share Image
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth… — Martin Heidegger Fishing Copy Share Image
...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature . The wood is… — Martin Heidegger Gardening Copy Share Image
“This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the… — Martin Heidegger Music and dance Copy Share Image
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are… — Martin Heidegger Change Copy Share Image
“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In… — Martin Heidegger Happiness Copy Share Image
“Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in… — Martin Heidegger Anxiety Copy Share Image
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological… — Martin Heidegger Body Copy Share Image
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment. — Martin Heidegger Art Copy Share Image
“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary… — Martin Heidegger Philosophy Copy Share Image
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with… — Martin Heidegger Confrontation Copy Share Image
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of… — Martin Heidegger Critique Copy Share Image
The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial… — Martin Heidegger Existence Copy Share Image
“But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger Happiness Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy… — Martin Heidegger Philosophy Copy Share Image
The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Metaphysics Copy Share Image