Martin Heidegger

Philosopher German 1889 – 1976

Explored being and existence; influenced phenomenology and existentialism profoundly.

379 quotes

"Language is the house in which Being dwells."
Wisdom
"All beings participate in Being."
Philosophy
"The mystery of Being is inexhaustible."
Philosophy
"Authentic being requires confronting mortality."
Death
"Being manifests itself through art and poetry."
Art
"Language is the house of being, and we dwell within it as our most intimate and necessary home."
Philosophy
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
Knowledge
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
"Technology is a mode of revealing that challenges nature to show itself as available for exploitation."
Technology
"The nothing nothings, which is what makes metaphysics necessary."
Philosophy
"To dwell poetically on this earth is what it means to be human."
"Being and time are not the same thing, yet they remain intimately connected in ways we have yet to understand."
Time
"The most thought-provoking thing is that we are still not thinking about thinking itself."
Education
"A man can live only a few decades; this is always a short time."
Life
"Freedom is not something man has; it is something man is."
Freedom
"Death is the sanctuary of nothingness, yet it gives meaning to life."
Death
"The authentic self is revealed only when we stop fleeing from our own mortality."
Courage
"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed when asking about being."
Philosophy
"Beauty is the way in which truth establishes itself in the world."
Beauty
"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
Patience
"The most dangerous ideology is the one we do not recognize as ideology."
Politics
"Science does not think because it is always imprisoned in technical rationality."
Science
"Art is the setting-into-work of truth, not merely a representation of reality."
Art
"We do not live long in this world; the span is always too short."
Life
"The human essence is related to this truth of being in a fundamental way."
Philosophy
"Music is the revealing of the nature of sound itself."
Music
"The clearing of being is always shrouded in concealment."
Truth
"Work reveals the character and quality of the one who works."
Work
"History is not merely the past; it is the way being reveals itself through time."
History
"The question of being is the most universal and the most empty of questions."
Philosophy