Martin Heidegger Quotes on Life
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Martin Heidegger on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.”
Letter on Humanism (1947) -
“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself.”
Stambaugh translation -
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.”
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Attributed to Martin Heidegger:
“Being-toward-death is essentially anxiety.”