The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERI know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERUnderstanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER