Martin Heidegger Quotes

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

Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of ...

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deepl...

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for a...

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Bu...

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, i...

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...

In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being...

Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness wh...

True time is four-dimensional.

As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in t...

Only a god can save us.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s ever...

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as...

Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to ...

Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond bein...

Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond bein...

Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Qu...

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its re...

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulate...

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of th...

Here, the asking of the question who we are is in fact more dangerous than any other opposition foun...

But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it...

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, ...

But what is great can only begin great.

Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of...

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creatur...

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see t...

But neither will anyone ask us whether we will it or do not will it when the spiritual strength of t...

The spiritual world of a Volk is not its cultural superstructure, just as little as it is its arsena...

Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological pr...

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of...

On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has bee...

We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; ...

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the sa...

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxi...

Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every ...

But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, ...

To dwell is to garden.

Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each o...

The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented...