Martin Heidegger Quotes

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?