I leave you the best Martin Heidegger quotes, prominent German philosopher, known for the importance of his works and thought, especially in the areas of existentialism and phenomenology, which contributed to shaping contemporary philosophy.
Among his books stand out Being and time, Introduction to metaphysics, What does it mean to think ?, Letter on humanism, among others. You may also be interested in these phrases of great philosophers of history.
-Your destiny cannot be changed, but it can be challenged.
-How one faces reality is a decision.
-Freedom is only found where there is a burden to bear.
-The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
-True time has four dimensions.
-The human body is essentially more than just an animal organism.
-Transcendence constitutes individuality.
-Today's literature is largely destructive.
-We ourselves are the entities that must be analyzed.
-The possible goes beyond the actual.
-Something worth thinking still hides in all that is well known.
-Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Being-there.
-Thinking the most difficult concept in philosophy means conceiving Being as time.
-The enjoyment of the work consists of participating in the creative state of the artist.
-Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
-Why do beings exist instead of nothing? That is the question.
-Longing is the agony of the nearness of the far away.
-Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
-Every man is born as many men and dies as one.
-The thing that makes us reflect the most in our times of worry is that we are not thinking yet.
-Each is the other and no one is himself.
-Man acts as if he were the modeler and master of language, when in fact language is still the master of man.
-Thinking is confining oneself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the sky of the world.
-There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out, but it still remains full..
-The greatness of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency with which he continues to search.
-At its core, technology is something that man does not control.
-Everywhere we remain without freedom and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm it or deny it.
-He who has big thoughts usually makes big mistakes.
-The truth is that which makes people unquestionable, transparent and strong.
-Poets are at the forefront of a changed conception of Being.
-Temporality makes possible the unity of existence, facticity and fall, thus originally constituting the structure of the cure..
-Like the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation to itself, and thus reunites with itself..
-Being the rational animal, man must be able to think if he really wants to do it. However, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
-The understanding of Being is itself a determination of being there.
-Making "the truth" a goddess is equivalent to converting the mere notion of something, that is, the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality".
-The song is still the one that names the land about which it sings.
-We are too late for the gods and too early for the Self.
-Time is not a thing, and therefore neither is it anything that is, and yet it remains constant in its death without being something temporary, like beings in time..
-All the questions that do justice to the subject are, in themselves, bridges to your own answer..
-In this "path", if continuing to fall and get up can be called a path, always and only the same question is asked about the "meaning of Being".
-Nature has no history.
-One hopes that philosophy will promote, and even accelerate the practical and technical matters of culture by alleviating them, making them easier.
-A limit is not where something ends, but where something begins.
-Everyone can reach their full potential. Who we are may be predetermined, but the path we follow is always our choice.
-We must never let our fears or the expectations of others limit our destiny..
-Dwelling is not primarily dwelling, but caring for and creating that space within which something sprouts and flourishes..
-A person is neither a thing nor a process, but an opening through which the absolute can manifest..
-Nothing is all that does not happen at this very moment.
-Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching requires is this: allowing learning.
-We can make space within us so that the being can speak.
-The will to dominate becomes more urgent the more technology threatens to escape human control.
-In order to remain silent, the being-there must have something to say.
-Questioning is the mercy of thought.
-We must live fully in the face of night and evil.
-The relationship between man and space is nothing other than housing, strictly thought and spoken.
-Only when the leader and the led are united in a single destination, the true order can grow.
-We do not "have" a body; instead, we "are" bodily.
-Being is a problem for you.
-We would like, if only for once, to get to where we already are.
-Only a god can save us.
-The first bond of man is the one that ties him to the national community.
-The essence of technology is by no means something technological.
-We by no means think decisively enough about the essence of the action..
-Anxiety is the fundamental disposition that confronts us with nothingness.
-Emptiness is the denial of all that exists.
-The desire to philosophize in the absence of a point of view, such as a supposedly genuine and superior objectivity, is childish or, as is often the case, false.
-Thought only begins the moment we have realized that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stubborn adversary of thought..
-Language is the house of the truth of Being. Man lives in his home. Those who think and those who believe with words are the guardians of this home.
-Criticism of the highest values so far is not limited to refuting or declaring them invalid. Rather, it is about showing their origins as impositions that must affirm with precision what must be denied by the established values..
-What was the life of Aristotle ?. Well, the answer is found in a single sentence: "He was born, thought and died." And all the rest are pure anecdotes.
-Being and time can determine each other reciprocally, but in such a way that neither the former is treated as something temporary, nor that the latter is treated as a being..
-Spiritual superiority consists of deep dedication in the form of rigorous training, as well as commitment, endurance, loneliness, and love..
-And so man, like the existing transcendence that abounds and exceeds possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances that it establishes towards every being in its transcendence, does a true proximity to things flourish in it..
-When modern physics endeavors to establish the formula of the world, what happens is the following: the being of entities has solved itself in the method of the totally calculable.
-Being a poet in need of time means paying attention, singing, to the trail of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in times of the night of the world pronounces the holy.
-If I bring death into my life, acknowledge it and face it directly, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life, and only then will I be free to become myself..
-The technique encompasses all areas of being: nature objectified, culture kept in motion, and politics directed at exaggerated ideals. Technique is complete metaphysics.
-We name time when we say: everything has its time. This means: all that really is, all being leaves and arrives at the right moment, and remains for the time that corresponds to it. Everything has its time.
-Philosophy cannot immediately transform the current condition of the world. This is true not only for philosophy, but for all human thoughts and endeavors..
-Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, essentially the same as the production of corpses in gas chambers and concentration camps, […] and similar to the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
-From our human experience and history, at least as far as I know, everything essential and great came about when human beings had a home and were rooted in their traditions..
-We think that beauty is the most worthy of reverence. […] Reverence is not a thing for the mean and humble, nor the handicapped, nor the underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion has great style.
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