248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

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

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.