Martin Heidegger Quotes

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Being is an issue for one.

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.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

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.

But what is great can only begin great.

True time is four-dimensional.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

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

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.

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.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

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

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

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

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

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

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

Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.

But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.