Quotes from Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Only a god can save us.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

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

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

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.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

To dwell is to garden.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.