Martin Heidegger Quotes

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

Being is born of not being.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Being is the great explainer.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Time was God's first creation.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Being that can be understood is language.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.