Martin Heidegger
To dwell is to garden.Collection: Gardening
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.Collection: Time
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.Collection: History
Language is the house of the truth of Being.Collection: Truth
Only a god can save us.Collection: God
The possible ranks higher than the actual.Collection: Brainy
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 manufacture of hydrogen bombs.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Time
True time is four-dimensional.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Future
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.Collection: Men
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
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.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.Collection: Destiny
How one encounters reality is a choice.Collection: Reality
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.Collection: Boundaries
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.Collection: Inspirational
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.Collection: Humanity
Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.Collection: Moments
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.Collection: Home
Questioning is the piety of thought.Collection: Questioning
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.Collection: Education
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.Collection: Agony
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.Collection: Space
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Home
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 particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.Collection: Technology
Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?Collection: Earth
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.Collection: Strong
But what is great can only begin great.Collection: Greatness
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.Collection: Order
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.Collection: Dwelling