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. 6 |
| • | The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker. 5 |
| • | The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 5 |
| • | We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. 4 |
| • | Transcendence constitutes selfhood. |
| • | Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question. |
| • | The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. |
| • | 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. |
| • | We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily. |
| • | We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. |
| • | A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. |
| • | How one encounters reality is a choice. |
| • | Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. |
| • | We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. |
| • | Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. |
| • | Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. |
| • | Everyone is the other and no one is himself. |
| • | The possible ranks higher than the actual. |
| • | 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. |
| • | There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. |
| • | We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. |
| • | Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (about Hölderlin) |
| • | Nature has no history. |
| • | The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. |
| • | When a person is consumed in everyday life, he avoids the deepest worries and penetrating self-examination. |
Non-English Quotes
| • | The nothing nothings. Das Nichts nichtet. |
