Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger was an influential German philosopher. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. Heidegger remains controversial due to his involvement more..more..

“ Martin Heidegger:Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another. #Questions#Questions

“ Martin Heidegger:Why is there Being at all, and not much rather Nothing? That is the question." #Questions#Questions

“ Martin Heidegger:Language is the house of the truth of Being. #Language#Language

“ Martin Heidegger:The possible ranks higher than the actual. #Rank#Rank

“ Martin Heidegger: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. #Teachers and Teaching#Teachers and Teaching

“ Martin Heidegger:The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees." #Music#Music

“ Martin Heidegger:The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. #Animals#Animals

“ Martin Heidegger:The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. #Thoughts and Thinking#Thoughts and Thinking

“ Martin Heidegger:Being is only Being for Dasein ##

“ Martin Heidegger:Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo- problems. #Philosophers and Philosophy#Philosophers and Philosophy

“ Martin Heidegger: Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ 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. #Science and Scientists#Science and Scientists

“ Martin Heidegger:"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy" (from Contributions to Philosophy from Enowning, full quote: #Quotations#Quotations

“ Martin Heidegger:In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. #Silence#Silence

“ Martin Heidegger:Transcendence constitutes selfhood. #Multiculturalism#Multiculturalism

“ Martin Heidegger:What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Martin Heidegger:For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Martin Heidegger:Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Martin Heidegger:...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. Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering Untergang for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder. Only a God Can Save Us. #Philosophers and Philosophy#Philosophers and Philosophy

“ Martin Heidegger:The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aiôn? It plays, because it plays. The "because? withers away in the play. The play is without "why." It plays since it plays. It simply remains a play: the most elevated and the most profound. But this "simply" is everything, the one, the only... The question remains whether and how we, hearing the movements of this play, play along and accommodate ourselves to the play. #Children#Children

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