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 HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERIf 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 HEIDEGGERMere anxiety is the source of everything.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNo historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTechnology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTruth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER