Martin Heidegger Quotes

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

The world divides into facts.

Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

The true is the whole.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Truth happens to an idea

Reality is the completion of experience.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Reality is only just a word.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

If things are real, they're there all the time.