Philosophy Quote by Martin Heidegger — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the”

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”

“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”

“Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands "interest"?”

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring.”

“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.”

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”

“My power is”

“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“We chart delusions through collective agreement.”