Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?

Dasein is a being that does not just occur among other beings. Rather, it is ontically distinguished by the fact that, in its very Being, that Being is an issue for it.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, but in fact language remains the master of man.

Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Only as Dasein, which is essentially futural, can it be authentically itself.

The world is not a collection of objects, but a field of relations.

Truth is the unconcealment of beings.

Every profound thinking is a thinking of the ground.

The history of Being is never a history of human beings.

The essence of freedom is to let beings be.

Being is not a being.

The 'they' prescribes the kind of Being of everydayness.

Poetry is the founding of Being in language.

The greatest danger is that we do not think.

Authenticity is the possibility of Dasein's being-its-Self.

The nothing is the origin of all being.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought.