Martin Heidegger Quotes & Sayings

31 most famous Martin Heidegger quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have for him.

“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.”

“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”

“To dwell is to garden.”

“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”

“As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.”

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

“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”

“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.”