248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.