Martin Heidegger Quotes

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

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

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.

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

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

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.

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

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

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

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.