We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already. Martin Heidegger More Quotes by Martin Heidegger More Quotes From Martin Heidegger To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. Martin Heidegger metaphysics term thinking The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. Martin Heidegger philosophical body animal What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. Martin Heidegger greatness sea philosophy The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. Martin Heidegger land names song The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden. Martin Heidegger understanding average way In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work. Martin Heidegger shoes mean art We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. Martin Heidegger essence mean thinking The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there Martin Heidegger earth self world The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things. Martin Heidegger experience fundamentals moving Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being. Martin Heidegger existentialism doe facts The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being. Martin Heidegger body way world But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. Martin Heidegger philosophical historical moving As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. Martin Heidegger subjectivity ego consciousness A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. Martin Heidegger life-skills giving For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death. Martin Heidegger Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger shepherd being man lord
