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Martin Heidegger Quotes on Mind

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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

    “Language is the house of Being.”

  • Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

    “We never come to thoughts. They come to us.”

  • 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.”

  • Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

    “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

  • Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

    “Being-toward-death is essentially anxiety.”