Philosophy Quotes

"The nothing nothings."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The nothing is not opposed to being but is its innermost veil."

"We are always in danger of reducing beings to mere objects for calculation."

"To be human is to exist in the question about being itself."

"The gods have fled; this absence defines our modern age."

"Being-in-the-world is not a position we take but the basic structure of existence."

"Language is the language of being itself, and we are its speakers and listeners."

"To think being itself is to be transformed by the very act of thinking."

"The clearing in the forest is where light can enter and beings can appear."

"Being withdraws even as it reveals; mystery is permanent to existence."

"The question of being is not an intellectual puzzle but a vital concern."

"The degree of civilization is measured by the degree of individuation."

"Man is naturally selfish, yet necessarily social."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"A problem well put is half solved."

"Everything human is apt to be shadowed by some skepticism."

"Method is but the road, and upon the road, human beings meet."

"The test of ideas is their practical applicability."

"Facts are not atoms, they are themselves products of classification."

"Without some form of continuity, there is only the occurrence of discrete, unrelated experiences."