A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. Martin Heidegger More Quotes by Martin Heidegger More Quotes From Martin Heidegger Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger destinysuccessinspirational 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 existentialismanxietyfaces We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Martin Heidegger destinyshouldexpectations A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. Martin Heidegger boundaries The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. Martin Heidegger thought-provokingphilosophicalthinking Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. Martin Heidegger creatingdwellinghome How one encounters reality is a choice. Martin Heidegger encounterschoicesreality Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative. Martin Heidegger creativemenneeds Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. Martin Heidegger realeducationteacher Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment. Martin Heidegger momentshappens Everyone is the other and no one is himself. 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 writingmenfacts Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology. Martin Heidegger technologyessencetoday 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. Martin Heidegger homementhinking Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger philosophicaltruthdeath In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself. Martin Heidegger lightdwellingfire Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms. Martin Heidegger despairexampledark Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. Martin Heidegger centuryreasonthinking We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. Martin Heidegger evilfacesnight In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. Martin Heidegger viewsnihilismcharacter
