Heidegger, Martin

"Authentic community is founded on shared historical destiny."

"The fourfold gathers earth, sky, mortals, and divinities together."

"Language is the house of being, and we dwell in it through our speaking and listening."

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

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

"Releasement toward things and openness to the mystery belong together."

"Technology is a way of revealing that challenges forth nature, demanding that it supply energy for human use."

"The nothing nothings."

"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed, yet we are also those who carry out the analysis."

"Art is the setting-to-work of truth."

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

"The most daily and accustomed activity is thinking, yet we rarely think about thinking itself."

"Nature shows itself to us through scientific inquiry as a calculable interconnection of forces."

"Poetry is the most innocent of all occupations."

"To build, to dwell, to think—these three belong together."

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

"The most thought-provoking is that we are still not thinking deeply."

"Anxiety reveals the nothing that being emerges from."

"Freedom is the ground upon which rests the possibility of all essence."

"Being and time determine each other reciprocally in a manner that is still concealed from us."

"The call of conscience calls us back to our ownmost possibility of being."

"We do not merely speak language; language speaks through us."

"Death individualizes us—it makes authentic existence possible."

"Science does not think; it calculates."

"The fundamental event of modernity is the conquest of the world as picture."

"Authentic being-with-others requires us to let the other be who they are."

"Truth is the unconcealment of what is, not mere agreement with statements."

"Higher than actuality stands possibility; the understanding of this distinguishes real philosophy."

"Listening is more important than speaking; true dialogue requires genuine receptiveness."

"The essence of technology is not itself technological."