Martin Heidegger Quotes

Biography: Martin Heidegger is known for his profound impact on existential philo... more Biography: Martin Heidegger is known for his profound impact on existential philosophy and phenomenology. Born in Germany in 1889, he authored "Being and Time," a seminal work in which he explored the nature of being, time, and human existence. His ideas have influenced diverse fields, despite controversy over his association with Nazism. less

"We do not know what the self is, not even that it is.""We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.""To think is to confide in the openness of being.""The possible ranks higher than the actual because possibility is rooted in the mode of being of existence.""Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing.""Only the true runs against the grain of placid habits.""He who thinks greatly must err greatly.""Every age has its own blindness.""Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know the impossibility of deciding.""To dwell is to garden.""Only a god can save us.""Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth.""Being is the most universal concept.""Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.""Being is the furthest and emptiest and at the same time the nearest and fullest.""The small are always dependent on the great; they are only snobs or prigs or vulgar when they want to force to be as great as they. ""The fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law.""Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.""Self assertion is rooted in care.""We do not say being we say the nothing."

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