Martin Heidegger Quotes

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

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Being that can be understood is language.

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.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

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

Being is only Being for Dasein.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

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

Being is the great explainer.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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