248 Quotes by Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.

But what is great can only begin great.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Precisely because we have embarked on the great and long venture of demolishing a world that has grown old and of rebuilding it authentically anew, i.e. historically, we must know the tradition. We must know more—i.e. our knowledge must be stricter and more binding—than all the epochs before us, even the most revolutionary. Only the most radical historical knowledge can make us aware of our extraordinary tasks and preserve us from a new wave of mere restoration and uncreative imitation.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands "interest"?