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Quotes from Martin Heidegger

Y qué sería del vacío del espacio? Con demasiada frecuencia, el vacío aparece tan sólo como una falta. El vacío pasa entonces por una falta de algo que llene los espacios huecos y los intersticios. Sin embargo, el vacío está presumiblemente hermanado con el carácter peculiar del lugar y, por ello, no es un echar en falta, sino un producir.
~ Martin Heidegger
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
~ Martin Heidegger
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
~ Martin Heidegger
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
~ Martin Heidegger
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
~ Martin Heidegger
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
~ Martin Heidegger
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
~ Martin Heidegger
True time is four-dimensional.
~ Martin Heidegger
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
~ Martin Heidegger
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
~ Martin Heidegger
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
~ Martin Heidegger
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
~ Martin Heidegger
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
~ Martin Heidegger
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
~ Martin Heidegger
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
~ Martin Heidegger
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
~ Martin Heidegger
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
~ Martin Heidegger
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
~ Martin Heidegger
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
~ Martin Heidegger
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~ Martin Heidegger
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
~ Martin Heidegger
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~ Martin Heidegger
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.
~ Martin Heidegger
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
~ Martin Heidegger