248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.

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.

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.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.

Each one of us is what he pursues and cares for. In everyday terms, we understand ourselves and our existence by way of the activities we pursue and the things we care of.