Martin Heidegger Quotes

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

I think, therefore I am.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

The coming being is whatever being.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

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.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

All known existence points beyond itself.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?