When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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 HEIDEGGERMaking itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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 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 HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly within metaphysics does logic exist.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage speaks and not the human.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREveryone is the other and no one is himself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe possible ranks higher than the actual.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER