Martin Heidegger Quotes

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

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

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

The moment is the sole reality.

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Love is simply where it is.

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.