Martin Heidegger

"The fundamental question is: Why are there beings at all, rather than nothing?"

"Death is the possibility of impossibility."

"Anxiety reveals the nothingness of existence."

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

"Thinking is a gift that requires patience."

"To dwell poetically upon this earth means to take in the fact of death."

"The danger of technology lies in man's tendency to regard it as ultimate."

"Genuine thinking is always thinking about something that concerns us."

"Being itself is temporal."

"We cannot order about what has already ordered us."

"The human essence is to know oneself as finite and mortal."

"The essence of freedom is letting beings be."

"Words are not mere labels for things; they unveil them."

"Inauthenticity is our natural condition until we choose to be authentic."

"The most rigorous science is still unable to comprehend being."

"To think is to listen to the call of being."

"Historical consciousness requires awareness of our thrownness."

"The thinker is more impoverished than the sage."

"Belonging to a place involves more than physical location."

"Every interpretation is an interpretation of something."

"The essence of technology is not technological."

"We must learn to dwell authentically in a technological age."

"Being reveals itself through the work of art."

"Authenticity begins when we cease to flee from ourselves."

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

"Death individualizes existence and reveals its finitude."

"Language is not a tool; it is the primary condition of all experience."

"To understand is to stand in the midst of conflicting interpretations."

"The poet names what is sacred."

"Forgetting is as important as remembering for authentic existence."