As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThere is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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 HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER