The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. — Martin Heidegger Evil Copy Share Image
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in… — Martin Heidegger Culture Copy Share Image
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. — Martin Heidegger Reason Copy Share Image
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. — Martin Heidegger Destiny Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been. — Martin Heidegger Future Copy Share Image
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. — Martin Heidegger Language Copy Share Image
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and… — Martin Heidegger Abyss Copy Share Image
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential… — 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… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Books Copy Share Image
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth… — Martin Heidegger Fishing 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
“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
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — Martin Heidegger Human existence Copy Share Image
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own… — 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
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'… — Martin Heidegger Being Copy Share Image
“All distances in time and space are shrinking. […] Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does… — Martin Heidegger Nearness 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 Curiosity Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Achievement Copy Share Image