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Nature has no history. — Martin Heidegger

Being is only Being for Dasein — Martin Heidegger

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. — Martin Heidegger

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. — Martin Heidegger

Being is an issue for one. — Martin Heidegger

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. — 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

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot. — Martin Heidegger

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. — Martin Heidegger

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak. — Martin Heidegger

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control — Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. — Martin Heidegger

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. — Martin Heidegger

Everyone is the other and no one is himself. — Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. — Martin Heidegger

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build — Martin Heidegger

Only a god can save us. — Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being. — Martin Heidegger

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. — Martin Heidegger

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already. — Martin Heidegger

What is decision anyway? — Martin Heidegger

Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. — Martin Heidegger

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

But what is great can only begin great. — Martin Heidegger

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. — Martin Heidegger

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks. — Martin Heidegger

Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves — Martin Heidegger

To dwell is to garden. — Martin Heidegger

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden. — Martin Heidegger

Questioning is the piety of thought. — Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything — Martin Heidegger

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

The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust, — Martin Heidegger

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. — Martin Heidegger

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — 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. — Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein. — Martin Heidegger

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

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

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9} — Martin Heidegger

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise. — Martin Heidegger

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it. — Martin Heidegger

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. — Martin Heidegger

True time is four-dimensional. — Martin Heidegger

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily. — Martin Heidegger

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. — Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. — Martin Heidegger

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

Only where there is language is there world.
- Martin Heidegger — Louis Koster

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

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed. — Martin Heidegger

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

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

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. — Martin Heidegger

Heidegger's parlamblings on 'Nothing' and 'Not' and 'the Nothing that Nothings' were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy. — John Gardner

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. — Martin Heidegger

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. — Martin Heidegger

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. — Martin Heidegger

To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality. — Martin Heidegger

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

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors — Martin Heidegger

Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger. — Leo Strauss

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. — Martin Heidegger

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. — Martin Heidegger

The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists. — Max Scheler

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition. — Martin Heidegger

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering. — Martin Heidegger

He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment. — Martin Heidegger

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth? — Martin Heidegger

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

On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way, — Martin Heidegger

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community. — Martin Heidegger

Has Dasein as itself ever freely decided, and will it ever be able to decide, whether it wants to come into "Dasein" or not? — Martin Heidegger

only he who already understands can listen — Martin Heidegger

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment. — Martin Heidegger

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. — Martin Heidegger

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. — Martin Heidegger

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. — Martin Heidegger

How one encounters reality is a choice. — Martin Heidegger

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. — Martin Heidegger

The jugness of the jug was how he explained Heidegger to Cal, as if that explained anything at all. — Edan Lepucki

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. — Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? — Martin Heidegger

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

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

The nothing nothings. — Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual. — Martin Heidegger