The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMere anxiety is the source of everything.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTechnology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThere is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER