Martin Heidegger

Philosopher German 1889 – 1976

Explored being and existence; influenced phenomenology and existentialism profoundly.

379 quotes

"The world reveals itself to those who wait."
Wisdom
"Strength lies in accepting what cannot be changed."
Strength
"Beauty is the language of being itself."
Beauty
"The future is born from our authentic choices."
Dreams
"To love is to will the other's becoming."
Love
"Change is the only constant of authentic being."
Change
"The source of meaning lies beyond reason."
Philosophy
"We are bound to the earth through language and care."
Nature
"The greatest insights arrive when we stop seeking them."
Wisdom
"Hope is grounded in honest acknowledgment of reality."
Hope
"Work becomes meaningful only through authentic engagement."
Work
"The self is not discovered but created through choice."
Life
"Technology threatens what it promises to reveal."
Technology
"Gratitude is the deepest form of thinking."
Gratitude
"We dwell most deeply in what we do not possess."
Peace
"Language is the house of being."
Philosophy
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
Wisdom
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."
Life
"The nothing nothings."
Philosophy
"Fear individualizes, but only in order for us to flee."
Fear
"Technology is a mode of revealing."
Technology
"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed."
Philosophy
"To be is to dwell."
Life
"Authenticity requires that we take responsibility for our own existence."
Courage
"The most common form of despair is the despair of not being yourself."
Strength
"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology."
Freedom
"Truth is the unconcealment of beings."
Truth
"Letting be reveals the being of beings."
Philosophy
"In the saving of the earth, a new freedom is achieved."
Nature