Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger More Quotes by Martin Heidegger More Quotes From Martin Heidegger Being is only Being for Dasein. Martin Heidegger Questioning is the piety of thought. Martin Heidegger piety questioning The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger shepherds philosophical lord Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this. Martin Heidegger who-we-are self world Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. Martin Heidegger longing agony In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. Martin Heidegger silent order To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. Martin Heidegger stars sky thinking Only a god can save us. Martin Heidegger sea To dwell is to garden. Martin Heidegger gardening garden house Being is an issue for one. Martin Heidegger issues Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole. Martin Heidegger fog men profound The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. Martin Heidegger dwelling home men Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. Martin Heidegger best-love famous-love romantic The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner. Martin Heidegger thinker independent thinking Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow. Martin Heidegger destiny leader order 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 latter former determine The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees. Martin Heidegger possibility way world We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time. Martin Heidegger comes-and-goes names mean 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 Martin Heidegger constellations revealing technology From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive. Martin Heidegger essentials literature home