Martin Heidegger Quotes

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

You gotta have a body.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It's primal, earthy, sexual energy by nature. You feel your body in a certain way. Channing is very much the same way. He's very in tune with that.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.

We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.