Heidegger quotes
Language is the house of being.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
The question concerning technology is not a technological question.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Low level awareness is always knowledge of something; high level awareness is not knowledge but care.
To die is nothing; it is terrible not to live.
Those who are willing to face anxiety find the courage to abandon what used to give them security and embrace the unknown.
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference.
Only a God can save us.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Time is the horizon of being.
Everywhere, do you hear time being praised?
Art is the setting-into-work of truth.
The human body is essentially built of the same material as the ocean.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
The ultimate question of philosophy is: Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?
Science does not think.
Language is the house of being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
Saying and showing are two different ways of being meaningful.
It is only when action is guided by a knowing and an awareness that a decision becomes authentic.
Thinking shows itself neither in scientific nor in philosophical thought as biological material-processes but as a happening of disclosure.
The fact that beings can be understood at all is grounded in a pripre-understanding.
Science is not the measure of all things, but the measure of science.
The everyday thinks in keeping with what is paged by public relations departments.
Anxiety specifically emphasizes the nothingness of the future.
Science pursues no economic goals.
Being-here is nothing else than the becoming transparent of Da-sein.
The essence of human reason is the ability to reflect upon the limits of its own thinking.
Reason is the shepherd of thinking.
The thinking that belongs to science perceives its objects as nothing but objects.
The eternal recurrence of the same truth of Being becomes avoided by way of forgetfulness of the truth of Being.
Thinking learns to master itself in the essential space of the open region and in being gathered into this region.
All representing becomes the representation of something in accordance with the means belonging to itself.
Reason is the disposition for a manner of representing.
Making is essentially letting whatever is to be something that is to be produced come forth into presencing.
Man does not keep to himself the ground upon which he stands.
The struggle for the victory of the essence of technology over the co-essence of technology is a struggle for the liberation of man.
The more resolutely we force ourselves to hold onto what is not waiting, the more certain we become that we are in anxiety.
Language is never the work of one man alone.
Man is challenged forth to resolute dedication for the concealing of beings.
A thing is still at hand in a practical way only if the fourfold assignment of standing reserve is transformed in advance to reveal.
Technology has ceased to be a human activity in order to become a total world.
What is decisive in the work of art is that being set forth and that setting-forth.
The thus of the thing lies not at all in a something.
Spider spinners and spiderwebs.
Art happens as art happens.