“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings… — Martin Heidegger 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
“Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a kind in which Dasein… — Martin Heidegger 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 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
“..."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 Copy Share Image
“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the… — Martin Heidegger 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 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
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
“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
“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
In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its… — 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 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 provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — 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 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 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 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
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — 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
