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
The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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.
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.
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.
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.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build