“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each of us, we ourselves.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'… — 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
Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. — Martin Heidegger 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 in their… — Martin Heidegger 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 the 'Oh,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image