Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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.
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The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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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.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Form displays the relation to beings itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
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In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed
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What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. National Socialism, but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
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The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one 'sees.'
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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We do not 'have' a body; rather, we 'are' bodily.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Being is only Being for Dasein
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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.