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 More Quotes by Martin Heidegger More Quotes From Martin Heidegger I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. Martin Heidegger native soil pleasure 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. Martin Heidegger vision running believe Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Martin Heidegger philosophical suicide philosophy Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. Martin Heidegger latter proof possibility But what is great can only begin great. Martin Heidegger greatness In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world. Martin Heidegger yield philosophy country Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build Martin Heidegger capable ifs dwelling The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control Martin Heidegger mastery technology humans The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. Martin Heidegger vanguard changed poet Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Martin Heidegger able philosophy world We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. Martin Heidegger philosophical Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth Martin Heidegger technology essence mean What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote. Martin Heidegger anecdotes born answers Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems. Martin Heidegger pseudo understanding philosophy Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. Martin Heidegger found Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. Martin Heidegger dedication spiritual commitment The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth Martin Heidegger technology essence men When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. Martin Heidegger modern physics world There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. Martin Heidegger remains worn empty What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder. Martin Heidegger men long thinking