Martin Heidegger Quotes

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

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