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Martin Heidegger Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.”
— Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
Tagged: Human Body, What It Means To Have A Body, humanity
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”
— Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
Tagged: confusing, Weird, strange, We Who Move
“I cannot help you, because the questions are so difficult that it would run counter to the sense of this task of thinking to suddenly step out in public in order to preach and dispense moral censures.”
— Martin Heidegger, ditext.com
Tagged: Questioning Questions, Questions, The Task Of Thinking, Public vs. Private Thought, No Moralizing, Philosophical
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
— Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?(Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Tagged: Thinking, Thought-Provoking, Philosophical
“The thinker can never himself say what is most of all his own. It must remain unsaid, because what is sayable receives its determination from what is not sayable.”
— Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy
“Growth means to lie open to the span of the heavens and, at the same time, to have roots in the dark earth; that everything real and true only prospers if mankind fulfills at the same time the two conditions of being ready for the demands of the highest heaven and of being safe in the shelter of the fruitful earth.”
— Martin Heidegger, Country Lane
Tagged: Idealism
“Let us try to listen to language.”
— Martin Heidegger, kein.org
Tagged: Language, Language Answers
“The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker.”
— Martin Heidegger, Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic"(Studies in Continental Thought)
Tagged: Truth Seeking, Grandeur
“Truth, as the clearing and concealing of what is, happens in being composed, as a poet composes a poem.”
— Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art
Tagged: The Clearing, Poetry, Poetizing, Truth as Movement
“Vocal utterance… is not essential for discourse, and therefore not for the call either; this must not be overlooked.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Communication, Secret Secrets, Silence, Vocal, Vocal Communication
“To be able to keep silent, Dasein must have something to say—that is, it must have at its disposal an authentic and rich disclosedness of itself.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Hearkening, Reticence, The Secret of Secrecy
“The small are always dependent on the great; they are small precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other greats and who can transform it in an original manner.”
— Martin Heidegger
Tagged: original, small, Great, Independent
“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time(Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Tagged: Possible, Actual
“I see the only possibility of a salvation in preparing a readiness, in thinking and poetizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of God in the case of decline; that we not, to put it coarsely, ‘come to a wretched end,’ but rather if we decline, we decline in the face of the absent God.”
— Martin Heidegger, Only A God Can Save Us
Tagged: Theology, Poetizing, My Philosophy, Heidegger’s Bridge
“The special character of space must show forth space itself.”
— Martin Heidegger, Rethinking Architecture
Tagged: Space, Architecture
“Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is terror-inducing, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges
man and uproots him from the earth.”
— Martin Heidegger, Fred-Break-Aesthetics-Black-Radical-Tradition.pdf
Tagged: Technicity, Technology
“The ways of reflection constantly are changing, according to the station along the way at which the journey begins, according to the distance along the way that it traverses, according to the vision that opens up while underway into what is question worthy.”
— Martin Heidegger, Heidegger and Unconcealment
Tagged: Situatedness, Scientific Perspectivism, Truth as Movement
“Listening to... is Dasein's existential way of Being-open as Being-with for Others. Indeed, hearing constitutes the primary and authentic way in which Dasein is open for its ownmost potentiality-for-Being—as in hearing the voice of the friend whom every Dasein carries with it. Dasein hears, because it understands.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Hearing, Hearing Hearing
“Still, how can we find the special character of space? There is an emergency path which, to be sure, is a narrow and precarious one. Let us try to listen to language. Whereof does it speak in the word 'space' ? Clearing-away is uttered therein. This means: to clear out, to free from wilderness. Clearing-away brings forth the free,the openness for man's settling and dwelling. When thought in its own special character, clearing-away is the release of places toward which the fate of dwelling man turns in the preserve of the home or in the brokenness of homelessness or in complete indifference to the two. Clearing-away is release of the places at which a god appears, the places from which the gods have disappeared, the places at which the appearance of the godly tarries long. In each case, clearing-away brings forth locality preparing for dwelling. Secular spaces are always the privation of often very remote sacred spaces.”
— Martin Heidegger, Kein.or
Tagged: Clearing Farm, The Clearing
“It requires a very artificial and complicated frame of mind to 'hear' a 'pure noise'. The fact that motor-cycles and waggons are what we proximally hear is the phenomenal evidence that in every case Dasein, as Being-in-the-world, already dwells alongside what is ready-to-hand within-the-world; it certainly does not dwell proximally alongside 'sensations'; nor would it first have to give shape to the swirl of sensations to provide the springboard from which the subject leaps off and finally arrives at a 'world'. Dasein, as essentially understanding, is proximally alongside what is understood.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Artificial, The Answer Is Already There
“But how are we to determine what is said in the talk that belongs to this kind of discourse? What does the conscience call to him to whom it appeals? Taken strictly, nothing. The call asserts nothing, gives no information about world-events, has nothing to tell. Least of all does it try to set going a 'soliloquy' in the Self to which it has appealed. 'Nothing' gets called to this Self, but it has been summoned to itself—that is, to its ownmost potentiality-for-Being.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Calling, Conscience, Potentiality, Vocations, When I Say To Myself I Who Comes, Who Calls When I Say I?, Who Comes When I Say I
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