43 Insightful Quotes By Martin Heidegger, The Renowned German Philosopher
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
The nothing nothings.
But what is great can only begin great.
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality.
Language is the house of Being.
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
