Martin Heidegger Quotes

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

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

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

Being is only Being for Dasein.

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.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

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?

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

All known existence points beyond itself.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

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

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a 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.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'