Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heideggerwas a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics. According to the IEP, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to Phenomenology and Existentialism, though as the SEP cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification."...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 September 1889
CountryGermany
Questioning is the piety of thought.
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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 is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
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.
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.