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

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

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

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

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger


Only a god can save us.
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

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

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

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Martin Heidegger

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

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.
Martin Heidegger

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Martin Heidegger