Martin Heidegger Quotes

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Your soul is the whole world.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Wholeness or health is our natural state. The nature of healing involves removing obstructions to this natural state and bringing individuals into alignment with themselves and their world. Free of these obstructions, an individual's innate intelligence and self-regulating capabilties will guide him toward a state of well being.

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

Did you know that I exist before the earth and did you know my eyes are windows to the world.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.