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List of Martin Heidegger Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 115 inspiring quotes by Martin Heidegger.

About Martin Heidegger

  • Born: September 26, 1889
  • Died: May 26, 1976
  • Occupation: Philosopher
    • Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.
    Essence Firsts States
    The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. it is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.
    Doe Matter Critique
    As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
    Ego Subjectivity Consciousness
    But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
    Moving Philosophical Historical
    The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
    Song Land Names
    To think being itself explicitly requires disregarding being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
    Thinking Metaphysics Term
    The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
    Mean Technology Essence
    The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.
    Average Understanding Way
    In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘to set’ means here: to bring to a stand. some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. the being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. the nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.
    Art Mean Shoes
    Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
    Distance Two Space
    So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
    Technology Long Masters
    The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their being.
    World Body Way
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