Martin Heidegger Quotes on Knowledge
Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) reorganizes epistemology around the analysis of Dasein — the human mode of being for which its own being is at issue — and the existential structures through which Dasein understands its world. Knowledge in the propositional sense (the agreement of an assertion with how things stand) is a derivative phenomenon, founded on the more primordial pre-theoretical understanding of being-in-the-world that the analysis of equipment, mood, and projection brings to light. Truth as alētheia — unconcealment — is the disclosure of beings against the open horizon of being itself, and the late work on Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and the history of metaphysics develops the destinal account of how being shows itself differently across the epochs of Western philosophy.
Quotes
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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:
“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?”
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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken. -
“The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker.”
Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" ( Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte "Probleme" der "Logik" (1984), translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer, Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0253004381 , p. 7) -
“Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" ( Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte "Probleme" der "Logik" (1984), translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer, Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0253004381 , p. 7)”
The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker. -
“The desire to philosophize from the standpoint of standpointlessness, as a purportedly genuine and superior objectivity, is either childish, or, as is usually the case, disingenuous.”
The Essence of Truth, 1931-32 -
“Transcendence constitutes selfhood.”
Essence of Ground (1929) -
“Essence of Ground (1929)”
Transcendence constitutes selfhood. -
“Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.”
Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage. -
“Cf. Gottfried Leibniz , De rerum originatione radicali (1697)ː " cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil .”
Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage.