Martin Heidegger

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

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.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

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

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

True time is four-dimensional.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

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.

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.