248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

Only from the truth of being can the essence of the holy be thought... Perhaps what is distinctive about this world-epoch consists in the closure of the dimension of the holy. Perhaps that is the only unholy malignancy.

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.

The truth of beyng is the beyng of truth – said in this way, it sounds like an artificial and forced reversal and, at most, like a seduction to a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by “decision.

Iedereen is de ander, en niemand is zichzelf.

We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily.