Martin Heidegger Quotes

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

There is no doing in the world without being first.

What thou art, that thou art.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

We do not become. We simply are.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

We are what we are.

That which we are, we are.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

You are what exists before all stories.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

This dance is the joy of existence.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

The spirit is the true self.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don't turn it into a suffering, don't turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

All we are is in the soul.

Love is the very essence of life.

Everybody is somewhere.