Martin Heidegger Quotes

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

There is nothing higher than reason.

This then is the age of reason.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Philosophy is for the few.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

[Logic and philosophy] were of no use, in the church or the state, in the cloister or the court, in peace or war, at home or abroad or anywhere but in the schools