Words matter. These are the best Martin Heidegger Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
True time is four-dimensional.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
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.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
