Martin Heidegger Quotes
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
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A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
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This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
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Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
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A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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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.
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Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.
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The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.
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The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.
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Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.
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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there.
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So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.