Martin Heidegger

Philosophy German 1889 – 1976 99 quotes

A highly influential and controversial philosopher, known for his work 'Being and Time'.

Quotes by Martin Heidegger

Nearness brings things close, but does not yet make them near.

The Thing 1950

The bridge is a thing; it gathers the fourfold.

The Thing 1950

He who thinks speaks truth.

On the Way to Language 1957

Language speaks.

On the Way to Language 1957

Man speaks only as he responds to language.

On the Way to Language 1957

The word is the gathering of being.

On the Way to Language 1957

Being is the enabling power.

Being and Time 1927

Time is the horizon of being.

Being and Time 1927

Care is the being of Dasein.

Being and Time 1927

Death is the ownmost possibility of Dasein.

Being and Time 1927

The call of conscience has the character of an appeal to Dasein by calling it to its ownmost potentiality-of-being-its-Self.

Being and Time 1927

Temporality temporalizes itself as authentic or inauthentic self-projection.

Being and Time 1927

The ready-to-hand is the phenomenon of understanding.

Being and Time 1927

Thrownness is the structure of Dasein's being.

Being and Time 1927

In the age of the world's night, the poet utters the holy.

What Are Poets For? 1946

The clearing is the open centre which gathers to itself the circle of beings.

The Essence of Truth 1949

Truth is the unconcealment of being.

On the Essence of Truth 1930

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world.

Interview with Der Spiegel 1966

I am convinced that the essence of technology is nothing technological.

Interview with Der Spiegel 1966