Martin Heidegger

“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks…

— Martin Heidegger

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce…

— Martin Heidegger

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

— Martin Heidegger

“..."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

“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only…

— Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

— Martin Heidegger

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances…

— Martin Heidegger

“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the…

— Martin Heidegger

“If knowing is to be possible as a way of determining the nature of the present-at-hand by observing it, then there must…

— Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

— Martin Heidegger

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

— Martin Heidegger

“Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy…

— Martin Heidegger

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings…

— Martin Heidegger

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true…

— Martin Heidegger

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

— Martin Heidegger

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

— Martin Heidegger

The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as…

— Martin Heidegger

“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view…

— Martin Heidegger

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

— Martin Heidegger

“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

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

— Martin Heidegger

“Language is the house of Being.”

— Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in…

— Martin Heidegger

I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see…

— Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

— Martin Heidegger