A collection of thoughts and quotations by Martin Heidegger on time, being, philosophy, metaphysics, reason, science, truth, originality, and transcendence.
43 Insightful Quotes By Martin Heidegger, The Renowned German Philosopher
Martin Heidegger was regarded on of the most influential and most original German philosophers of the 20th century. Most of his reputation was derived from his work, ‘Being and time’ in which he used coinages, which made his philosophy dense. His studies, thoughts and work revolve around topics like ‘Being’, ‘unity’, ‘freedom’, ‘care’ and ‘possibility’. Although these terms were simple to acknowledge in a broad spectrum, Heidegger argued that we only think about them when we are alone or isolated. Though difficult to understand, his philosophy revolves around some basic truths and implications of our lives. His observations on several topics of life and philosophy have become quite popular as his quotations. Heidegger’s teachings were speculative, but when compared to reality, his works seem to leave a practical impact on us. Presenting a collection of inspiring and motivational quotes by Martin Heidegger, the great German philosopher.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors
Martin Heidegger
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
Martin Heidegger
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
Martin Heidegger
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
Martin Heidegger
The nothing nothings.
Martin Heidegger
But what is great can only begin great.
Martin Heidegger
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
Martin Heidegger
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
Martin Heidegger
To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way, it is always and only the same question of the “meaning of beyng” that is asked.
Martin Heidegger
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way,
Martin Heidegger
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves
Martin Heidegger
Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.
Martin Heidegger
Nature has no history.
Martin Heidegger
One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}
The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust,
Martin Heidegger
Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness.
(essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin of the work of art)
 and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust, )
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