Quotes by
Martin Heidegger |
1889-1976 , German philosopher
German philosopher. His book Being and Time (1927) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophy texts of the 20th Century. His involvement with the Nazis has led to much controversy and debate.
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Quotations
| • | He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors. 7 |
| • | The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 6 |
| • | The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker. 6 |
| • | We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. 5 |
| • | When a person is consumed in everyday life, he avoids the deepest worries and penetrating self-examination. 1 |
| • | The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. 1 |
| • | Nature has no history. 1 |
| • | Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (about Hölderlin) 1 |
| • | We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. 1 |
| • | There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | The possible ranks higher than the actual. 1 |
| • | Everyone is the other and no one is himself. 1 |
| • | Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. 1 |
| • | Thus “phenomenology” means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα — to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. 1 |
| • | Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. 1 |
| • | Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. 1 |
| • | We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. 1 |
| • | Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. 1 |
| • | Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. 1 |
| • | Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. 1 |
| • | How one encounters reality is a choice. 1 |
| • | A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. 1 |
| • | We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. 1 |
| • | We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily. 1 |
| • | Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us. 1 |
| • | The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. 1 |
| • | Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question. 1 |
| • | Transcendence constitutes selfhood. 1 |
Non-English Quotes
| • | The nothing nothings. Das Nichts nichtet. 1 |
