Heidegger, Martin

"Authentic dialogue requires genuine vulnerability and exposure to the other."

"Language is the house of being, and we dwell within it as thinking beings."

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

"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."

"What is poverty? It is the highest spiritual poverty to own nothing and to have nothing."

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

"The nothing nothings, and in this nothinging it reveals itself."

"Technology is not the application of the natural sciences. It is a way of revealing."

"The human essence lies in freedom."

"A man dies when he refuses to change."

"Being is not a genus of beings; yet it concerns every being."

"Thinking is thanking—this requires the deepest attention to what is."

"The most important is to preserve the question about being."

"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed in ontology."

"Death is the possibility of impossibility, and thus the most extreme possibility."

"Anxiety reveals the nothingness of beings."

"To dwell poetically means to measure and to build by the poetic."

"The earth is that which stays put and provides, holds, nourishes, and cares."

"Humans are not the masters of beings, but shepherds of being."

"Time is the fundamental dimension of human existence."

"Authenticity requires confronting one's own mortality."

"Science leaves everything as it was, and only changes our knowledge of things."

"Lethe, or forgetting, is intrinsic to the emergence of truth."

"The human condition is characterized by finitude and thrownness."

"Art is the origin of truth and the setting-into-work of truth."

"We cannot escape our situation, but we can acknowledge and accept it."

"The most banal objects contain hidden depths waiting to be revealed."

"History is not mere succession of events, but a meaningful unfolding."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but authentic responsibility."

"A work of art opens a world and keeps it open."