Martin Heidegger Quotes

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

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Western Humanism does not ask the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience. Humsniists leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption.

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.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

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

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

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?

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

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

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

All known existence points beyond itself.

Nothingness haunts Being.

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

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.