Heidegger, Martin

"Poetic language reveals what ordinary speech conceals."

"We are always in danger of losing ourselves in the masses."

"Craftsmanship requires understanding the essence of materials."

"Being shows itself only by withdrawing and concealing itself."

"The essence of technology is a way of revealing, not technology itself."

"Only by accepting finitude can we live authentically."

"History is the self-manifestation of being in time."

"The question 'What is being?' drives all genuine inquiry."

"Remembrance is an encounter with the presence of the absent."

"The essence precedes and determines the existence of artifacts."

"Anxiety is not fear of something; it is the disclosure of nothingness."

"Being manifests itself through the work of art."

"To think deeply about technology is to question our very essence."

"The world is not a collection of objects but a unified field of meaning."

"Genuine conversation requires openness and vulnerability."

"The task of art is to struggle with the concealment of truth."

"Dwelling authentically requires attending to the particular place."

"Being reveals itself as both presence and absence."

"The essence of man is to be the guardian of being."

"Art and poetry preserve what technology threatens to destroy."

"Thinking is an acknowledgment of our finitude and limitation."

"The most dangerous path is that of forgetting our origins."

"Being is the most familiar yet most forgotten of all."

"Language is the memory of being preserved in speech."

"Silence dwells where authentic understanding is born."

"The essence of freedom is the freedom of authentic choice."

"Only the saved can save; only those who question can think."

"The crisis of our time is a crisis of forgetting being."

"Man stands in the clearing where being reveals itself."

"The home is where one can be oneself without pretense."