Martin Heidegger
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 bridge is a thing; it gathers the fourfold.
He who thinks speaks truth.
Language speaks.
Man speaks only as he responds to language.
The word is the gathering of being.
Being is the enabling power.
Time is the horizon of being.
Care is the being of Dasein.
Death is the ownmost possibility of Dasein.
The call of conscience has the character of an appeal to Dasein by calling it to its ownmost potentiality-of-being-its-Self.
Temporality temporalizes itself as authentic or inauthentic self-projection.
The ready-to-hand is the phenomenon of understanding.
Thrownness is the structure of Dasein's being.
In the age of the world's night, the poet utters the holy.
The clearing is the open centre which gathers to itself the circle of beings.
Truth is the unconcealment of being.
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world.
I am convinced that the essence of technology is nothing technological.