Heidegger, Martin

"We are thrown into a world we did not choose; this is our fundamental condition."

"Being is hidden, yet it constantly reveals itself through beings."

"The work of art opens up a world and holds it open for us."

"History is not merely what has passed; it is what is coming toward us."

"Authentic historicality emerges when we own our past and future together."

"Mortals dwell on the earth by saving it, by realizing it as the earth."

"The clearing is where all beings show themselves and hide themselves."

"Language is the primordial dimension in which understanding first occurs."

"To think, we must learn to unlearn what we thought we knew."

"Being reveals itself as hidden; concealment is part of truth itself."

"Solitude is not the opposite of togetherness; authentic being requires both."

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

"Care is the fundamental structure of human existence itself."

"We are always already in the world; detachment from it is impossible."

"Authenticity requires confronting our own mortality and finitude."

"The essence of man is his ek-sistence, his standing out into the openness of being."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the genuine presencing of wholeness."

"We belong to the world before we can know or master it."

"The artwork preserves and discloses truth in a way calculation never can."

"To dwell means to cherish and preserve the earth and all that grows upon it."

"Understanding is not a possession we have but a mode of our being."

"The most dangerous thing is the belief that we already understand."

"Being is not a genus but the very ground from which all distinctions arise."

"Authentic time emerges not from the clock but from our existential commitments."

"We are most ourselves when we acknowledge our dependence on something greater."

"The question of being has been forgotten; recovering it is philosophy's essential task."

"Technology threatens to reduce all of nature to a standing reserve of resources."

"Thought that truly thinks must be willing to follow where being leads."

"The artwork tears open the crack through which the unconcealed penetrates."

"We speak our everyday language without reflecting on what language itself does."