Martin Heidegger
A highly influential and controversial philosopher, known for his work 'Being and Time'.
Quotes by Martin Heidegger
The essence of truth is freedom.
The human being is the being that questions Being.
The essence of modern technology lies in Enframing.
The clearing is the open region for the emergence of beings.
The world is that in terms of which Dasein understands itself.
The oblivion of Being is the fundamental event of Western history.
The essence of language is saying.
The poet names the holy.
The human being is thrown into the world.
The essence of truth is not correctness, but unconcealment.
Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.
The nothing itself nothings.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Every man is born as he is, and dies as he is born.
Authentic existence is not something that we can achieve by our own efforts alone.
Dasein is an entity for which being is a question.
The 'they' prescribes one's state-of-mind, and determines what and how one 'sees'.
Being and time are equiprimordial.
Anxiety reveals the nothing.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.