Martin Heidegger Quotes
Martin Heidegger was a 20th-century German philosopher whose 1927 work Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) is one of the most influential texts of contemporary continental philosophy. He developed an ontology of Dasein, the being for whom being is a question, and analyses of authenticity, anxiety, and being-toward-death that decisively shaped existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. The quotes below are attributed to Martin Heidegger, organized by topic.
Martin Heidegger on Death
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Being-toward-death is essentially anxiety.”
Martin Heidegger on Knowledge
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?”
Martin Heidegger on Life
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
Martin Heidegger on Mind
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Language is the house of Being.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“We never come to thoughts. They come to us.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
Martin Heidegger on Nature
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.”