Martin Heidegger Quotes

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• Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
• The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
• We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
• We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
• The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
• True time is four-dimensional.
• Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
• A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
• The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world…
• Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not…
• Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
• Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
• The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,…
• Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence…
• The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already…
• The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to…
• Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this…
• In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the…
• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with…
• We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

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