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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To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

Martin Heidegger

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

Martin Heidegger

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.

Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Martin Heidegger

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

Martin Heidegger

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins.

Martin Heidegger

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Martin Heidegger

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particula...

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

Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Martin Heidegger

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 manu...

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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

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

Martin Heidegger

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.

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To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

Only a god can save us.

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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.

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

Martin Heidegger

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.

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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Martin Heidegger

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

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Author Bio

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