Martin Heidegger Quotes

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger

Alone, Men, Single

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger

Life, Death, Free

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

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger

Time, Nothing, Away

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Martin Heidegger

Food, Same, Industry

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

Fact, While, Language

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Martin Heidegger

Physics, Modern, Totally

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Martin Heidegger

Possible, Higher, Actual

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
Martin Heidegger

Time, Nor, Neither

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger

Philosophy, Making

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Lord, Shepherd, Beings

Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger

Ego, Gathers, Relates

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

Gardening, Garden, Dwell

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger

History, Within, Historical

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger

Human, Body, Animal

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

Thinking, Thought, Reason

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
Martin Heidegger

True time is four-dimensional.
Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Truth, Language, House

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Others, Speak, While

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

Human, Lord, Shepherd

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Martin Heidegger

Nothing, Why, Beings

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Future, Alone, Single

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Martin Heidegger

Time, Two, Sense

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 26, 1889

Died: May 26, 1976

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