Quotes by Martin Heidegger

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our natural point of departure Daseins everyday interpretation of the Self. In *saying* *I*, Dasein expresses itself about itself. It is not ne...”

“The I is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the I, nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts. Consciousness in itself (is) not so much a representationa...”

“But how does it come about that while the I think gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically, and has to fall back on the subjectthat is to say, something *s...”

“What is the motive for this fugitive way of saying I? It is motivated by Daseins falling; for as falling, it *flees* in the face of itself into the they. When the I talks in the natural manner, thi...”

“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-ones-Self is j...”

“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of putting the theme which comes to life at the beginning of philosophy in antiquity,...”

“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of the way in which these phenomenological investigations proceed. This raises the...”

“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the essence of knowledge, an 'ideal subject' has generally been posited. The motive f...”

“Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Daseina kind in which Dasein is constantly uprooting itself.Idle talk controls even the ...”

“Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond beings occurs in the essence of Dasein. But this going beyond is metaphysics itself. This implies tha...”

“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a wholethe world, man, Godwith respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of beings in Being. Metaphysics thinks beings as bein...”

“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation owes this sight to the light of Being. The light ...”

“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general), it seems that we have also delineated the meth...”

“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.”

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”

“But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power.Through this we are not yet saved. But we are thereupon summoned to...”

“Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn i...”