Heidegger, Martin

"The task of thinking is to respond to what being itself reveals."

"Building dwells in thinking; thinking dwells in building."

"We are always already thrown into a world not of our making."

"The clearing is the open region in which beings appear."

"Haste is the enemy of genuine encounter with being."

"The root of all technology lies in a particular way of revealing."

"Care is the fundamental structure of human existence."

"Silence can be more eloquent than words in moments of truth."

"The essence of modern technology is the enframing of reality."

"Man's relationship with nature must be one of respect, not domination."

"Truth is not conformity of knowledge to objects, but unconcealment."

"The poet names the holy; the thinker thinks being."

"What matters is not knowledge but the readiness to learn."

"Being withdraws even as it reveals itself to us."

"We dwell when we can think what we are doing."

"Temporality is not in time; time is in temporality."

"Idle talk passes over the genuine meaning of things."

"The question of being is the most universal and deepest of questions."

"Authenticity requires resisting the pull of the 'they-self.'"

"Every bringing-forth is a revealing, whether in nature or art."

"Being is the most universal of concepts, yet the most obscure."

"Moods are not psychological states but revelations of being."

"The bridge gathers the fourfold and holds it in unity."

"Destruction is sometimes necessary for genuine creation."

"The shepherd guards the flock and knows its nature intimately."

"Language speaks us as much as we speak language."

"Rage against the dying of the light requires living authentically."

"Being is not an object but the condition of all objects."

"The nothing is not merely the negation of beings."

"Thinking begins when we stop taking things for granted."