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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of…

— Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

— Martin Heidegger

“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;…

— Martin Heidegger

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things…

— Martin Heidegger

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

— Martin Heidegger

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

— Martin Heidegger

“Vsakdo je drugi in nihče ni on sam.”

— Martin Heidegger

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose.…

— Martin Heidegger

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

— Martin Heidegger

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

— Martin Heidegger

“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their…

— Martin Heidegger

“Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in the 'Oh,…

— Martin Heidegger

The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is,…

— Martin Heidegger

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

— Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

— Martin Heidegger