Martin Heidegger Quotes

• The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

• The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

• The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

  Martin Heidegger

• Only a god can save us.

  Martin Heidegger

• Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

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

  Martin Heidegger

• Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

  Martin Heidegger

• Language is the house of the truth of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

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

  Martin Heidegger

• But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

  Martin Heidegger

• Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.

  Martin Heidegger

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

  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.

  Martin Heidegger

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Birth:	26th September, 1889
Death:	26th May, 1976
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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