Quotes by Martin Heidegger

About Martin Heidegger:

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition, particularly within the fields of existential phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics. From his beginnings as a Catholic academic, he developed a groundbreaking and widely influential philosophy.
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in h...

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But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, ...

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

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Being' cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that 'Being' cannot have the character of an entity. Thus we ...

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The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.

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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

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Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

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

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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

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But what is great can only begin great.

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Prestare attenzione a ciò che con-viene al dire pensante non implica solo che noi ogni volta meditiamo su dire dell'essere e su dirlo. Resta altrettanto essenziale riflettere si possa dire ciò che è da pensare, fino a che punto lo si possa dire, i...

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The possible ranks higher than the actual.

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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

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Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

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Author Bio

  • NameMartin Heidegger
  • DescriptionGerman philosopher
  • BornSeptember 26, 1889
  • DiedMay 26, 1976
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Poet
  • WorksSein Und Zeit