Martin Heidegger Quotes
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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
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Spiritual superiority consists in deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
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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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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.
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True time is four-dimensional.
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Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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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.
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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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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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Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker.
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
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Only a god can save us.
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Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
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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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The desire to philosophize from the standpoint of standpointlessness, as a purportedly genuine and superior objectivity, is either childish, or, as is usually the case, disingenuous.
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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.
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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.