248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass.

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

Nature has no history.

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

Language speaks and not the human.

In its factical existence, any particular Dasein either ‘has the time’ or ‘does not have it’. It either ‘takes time’ for something or ‘cannot allow any time for it’. Why does Dasein ‘take time’, and why can it ‘lose’ it? Where does it take time from? How is this time related to Dasein’s temporality?

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world’s sky.