Heidegger, Martin

Philosopher German 1889 – 1976

Developed existential phenomenology and hermeneutic ontology.

364 quotes

"Authentic existence means owning one's potential for being."
Life
"The clearing is the open region in which unconcealment can happen."
Truth
"Resoluteness opens up the most extreme possibilities of human existence."
Courage
"Forgetting is part of the essence of remembering."
"Language speaks us more than we speak language."
Wisdom
"The nothing is the veil of being."
Philosophy
"Art is the becoming and happening of truth."
Art
"Time temporalizes itself in three dimensions of ekstasis."
Time
"The most royal of the sciences must become the servant of philosophy."
Knowledge
"Authentic temporality grounds authentic historicity."
History
"The human is the shepherd of being."
Philosophy
"Moods are not internal states but ways of being in the world."
Wisdom
"The work-being of the work is truth setting itself to work."
Art
"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."
Life
"Truth is the unconcealment of being."
Truth
"We cannot escape the technological framework through technological means."
Technology
"Being withdrawn into mystery is the very essence of world."
Philosophy
"The essence of technology is nothing technological."
Technology
"Art preserves the unconcealedness of beings."
Art
"Anxiety individualizes the human being utterly."
Fear
"The most exacting demand is that we ourselves think."
Education
"World is not the sum total of things present."
Philosophy
"The basic character of being is to be self-concealing."
Truth
"Poetry and philosophy are both paths to the truth of being."
Literature
"Historicity means the character of historical happening."
History
"The deepest poverty is not to be destitute but to have no destiny."
Wisdom
"Logos is speech and also unconcealment."
Philosophy
"Being disclosed itself only in the light of concealment."
Truth
"The essence of man is ek-sistence, standing out into the open."
Life
"The world worlds, and is never something merely present."
Nature