Martin Heidegger Quotes

Being is the great explainer.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Wisdom is only found in truth.