Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
-
-
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Language speaks and not the human.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER