Heidegger Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

“What is critical to being-in-the-world, says Heidegger, is not predicated on what we know about the world but rather on knowing how to live…

— Barbara Bolt

“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.”

— Leo Strauss

“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of contemplation, it…

— Alan W. Watts

“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door, and Sein,…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Now, most people bear life without any considerable grumbling, and consequently believe in the value of existence, but precisely because each one is solely…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

— Thomas Merton

“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the essence and…

— Natalia Beshqoy

“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he…

— Erich Fromm

“One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one…

— Bobby Adair Compton