Martin Heidegger

The hand is infinitely different from all grasping organs—the paw, the claw, the talon—different by an abyss of essence.

The danger of the atomic age is not the bomb itself, but the way of thinking that produced it.

The essence of man is his existence.

The clearing is not a space that is already there, but rather it first makes space possible.

The world is not a thing, but a happening.

Only a god can save us.

The history of philosophy is the history of the oblivion of Being.

To dwell means to remain at peace within the free, that is, the preserve of the fourfold, each in its own way protecting the fourfold.

The question of Being is the most fundamental and universal question.

The essence of dwelling is to preserve the fourfold: earth and sky, divinities and mortals.

The work of art opens up a world and at the same time sets this world back upon the earth.

The oblivion of Being is the oblivion of the difference between Being and beings.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

The essence of man is that he is ek-sistent.

The 'they' is not a definite 'somebody' but an indefinite 'nobody'.

The more primordially Dasein understands itself in terms of its end, the more resolutely it projects itself upon its possibilities.

The danger is that the essence of technology, as a destining of unconcealment, could itself become a danger.

The world is not a sum of things, but the openness for things.

Thinking is a way of thanking.

The nothing nothings.