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Martin Heidegger

10 quotes

Martin Heidegger may not have a Wikipedia page, but their words have earned a place in our collection all the same. With equal ease, Martin Heidegger moved between Time and History, finding connections others missed. Discover 11 of Martin Heidegger's most memorable quotes, ranging across Time, History, Alone, Truth, and Gardening. A favorite of many readers: "To dwell is to garden."

“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”

— Martin Heidegger

History

All Quotes by Martin Heidegger

“The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.”

— Martin Heidegger

Alone

“Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.”

— Martin Heidegger

History

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

Time

“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”

— Martin Heidegger

Food

“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”

— Martin Heidegger

Time

“To dwell is to garden.”

— Martin Heidegger

Gardening

“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”

— Martin Heidegger

Truth

“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”

— Martin Heidegger

History

“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

Death

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

— Martin Heidegger

Alone