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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
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
Questioning is the piety of thought.
— Martin Heidegger
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
— Martin Heidegger
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
— Martin Heidegger
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
— Martin Heidegger
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
— Martin Heidegger
Mere anxiety is the source of everything
— Martin Heidegger
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves
— Martin Heidegger
But what is great can only begin great.
— 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
To dwell is to garden. — Martin Heidegger
To dwell is to garden.
— Martin Heidegger
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
— 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
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
— Martin Heidegger
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
— Martin Heidegger
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
— 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
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
Language is the house of Being.
— Martin Heidegger
We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.
— Martin Heidegger
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
— Martin Heidegger
True time is four-dimensional.
— 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 acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
— Martin Heidegger
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
— Martin Heidegger
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
— Martin Heidegger
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
— Martin Heidegger
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
— 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
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 nothing nothings.
— 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
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
— Martin Heidegger
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors
— Martin Heidegger
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
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
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
How one encounters reality is a choice.
— Martin Heidegger
On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way,
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only he who already understands can listen
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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
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
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
— Martin Heidegger
Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
— Martin Heidegger
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
— Martin Heidegger
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