Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
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The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
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I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.
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I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
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Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
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A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
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Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
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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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Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
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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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We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
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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.