Martin Heidegger citations (85 citations, Page 2)

I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.
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Interview recueilli en 1966 sous la condition d'une publication posthume, qui fut réalisée en 1976 par Der Spiegel .
Interview du Spiegel, 1966

Martin Heidegger Citations

“Le pur et simple passé n’épuise pas ce qui a été. Ce qui a été continue d’être […].”

Martin Heidegger

Qu’est-ce qu’une chose, 1962

“Dans la mesure où chaque chose a son lieu, son moment et sa durée, il n’y a jamais deux choses semblables.”

Martin Heidegger

Qu’est-ce qu’une chose, 1962

“C'est dans cette imperceptibilité que le On déploie sa véritable dictature.”

Martin Heidegger

“Nous pouvons utiliser les choses techniques, nous en servir normalement, mais en même temps nous en libérer, de sorte qu’à tout moment nous conservions nos distances à leur égard. Nous pouvons faire usage des objets techniques comme il faut qu’on en use. Mais nous pouvons en même temps les laisser à eux-mêmes comme ne nous atteignant pas dans ce que nous avons de plus intime et de plus propre. Nous pouvons dire « oui » à l’emploi inévitable des objets techniques et nous pouvons en même temps lui dire « non », en ce sens que nous les empêchions de nous accaparer et ainsi de fausser, brouiller et finalement vider notre être. (…) Un vieux mot s’offre à nous pour désigner cette attitude du oui et du non dits ensemble au monde technique : c’est le mot de Gelassenheit”

Martin Heidegger

sérénité
Questions III et IV

sortie , faute , temps , distance

“La philosophie compte parmi les plus originels des efforts humains.”

Martin Heidegger

Qu’est-ce qu’une chose, 1962

effort

“Le repos n’est que mouvement se retenant en soi, souvent plus inquiétant que le mouvement même.”

Martin Heidegger

Qu’est-ce qu’une chose, 1962

“On ne peut entreprendre de définir l’être sans tomber dans cette absurdité: car on ne peut définir un mot sans commencer par celui-ci, c’est, soit qu’on l’exprime ou qu’on le sous-entende. Donc pour définir l’être, il faudrait dire c’est, et ainsi employer le mot défini dans sa définition.”

Martin Heidegger livre Être et Temps

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Martin Heidegger

Four Lectures on Technology (1949)

“In contrast to “Blessed are they who do not see and still believe,” he speaks of “seeing and still not believing.””

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 30

“The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.”

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Martin Heidegger Letter on Humanism

Letter on Humanism (1947)

“Nietzsche … does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 50

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

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Martin Heidegger livre Être et Temps

Macquarrie & Robinson translation
Being and Time (1927)

“The will to the “true world” in the sense of Plato and Christianity … is in truth a no-saying to our present world, precisely the one in which art is at home.”

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...der Wille zur »wahren Welt« im Sinne Platons und des Christentums … ist in Wahrheit ein Neinsagen zu unserer hiesigen Welt, in der gerade die Kunst heimisch ist.
Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 74

“For anyone who at the end of Western philosophy can and must still question philosophically, the decisive question is no longer merely “What basic character do beings manifest?” or “How may the being of beings be characterized?” but “What is this ‘being’ itself?” The decisive question is that of “the meaning of being,” not merely that of the being of beings.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 18

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

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Martin Heidegger Letter on Humanism

Letter on Humanism (1947)

“Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.”

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Martin Heidegger livre Être et Temps

Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Daseinsunmöglichkeit.
Macquarrie & Robinson translation
Being and Time (1927)

“If in Nietzsche’s thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 4

““For many, abstract thinking is toil; for me, on good days, it is feast and frenzy.” (XIV, 24) Abstract thinking a feast? The highest form of human existence? … “The feast implies: pride, exuberance, frivolity; mockery of all earnestness and respectability; a divine affirmation of oneself, out of animal plenitude and perfection—all obviously states to which the Christian may not honestly say Yes. The feast is paganism par excellence.” (WM, 916). For that reason, we might add that thinking never takes place in Christianity. That is to say, there is no Christian philosophy. There is no true philosophy that could be determined anywhere else than from within itself.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 5

“Eternity, not as a static “now,” nor as a sequence of “nows” rolling off into the infinite, but as the “now” that bends back into itself. … Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy means thinking being as time.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 20

“Today we decide about metaphysics and about even more elevated things at philosophy conferences. For everything that is to be done these days we must first have a meeting, and here is how it works: people come together, constantly come together, and they all wait for one another to turn up so that the others will tell them how it is, and if it doesn’t get said, never mind, everyone has had their say. It may very well be that all the talkers who are having their say have understood little of the matter in question, but still we believe that if we accumulate all that misunderstanding something like understanding will leap forth at the end of the day. Thus there are people today who travel from one meeting to the next and who are sustained by the confidence that something is really happening, that they’ve actually done something; whereas, at bottom, they’ve merely ducked out of work, seeking in chatter a place to build a nest for their helplessness—a helplessness, it is true, that they will never understand.”

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Gesamtausgabe, 20:376, as translated by David Farrell Krell in Portraits of American Continental Philosophers (1999), p. 101

“The desire to philosophize from the standpoint of standpointlessness, as a purportedly genuine and superior objectivity, is either childish, or, as is usually the case, disingenuous.”

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The Essence of Truth, 1931-32

“Being is only Being for Dasein”

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Martin Heidegger livre Être et Temps

Macquarrie & Robinson translation
Being and Time (1927)

“Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 119

“In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 26

“We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 125

“Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 117

“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.”

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Interview (23 September 1966), published posthumously in Der Spiegel (31 May 1976), as translated by Maria P. Alter and John D. Caputo in The Heidegger Controversy : A Critical Reader (1991), edited by Richard Wolin.

“We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily.”

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Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 99

“If beings are grasped as will to power, the “should” which is supposed to hang suspended over them, against which they might be measured, becomes superfluous. If life itself is will to power, it is itself the ground, principium, of valuation. Then a “should” does not determine being. Being determines a “should.” “When we talk of values we are speaking under the inspiration or optics of life: life itself compels us to set up values; life itself values through us whenever we posit values.””

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VIII, 89

p. 32
Nietzsche (1961)

“Nietzsche understands the aesthetic state of the observer and recipient on the basis of the state of the creator. Thus the effect of the artwork is nothing else than a reawakening of the creator’s state in the one who enjoys the artwork. Observation of art follows in the wake of creation. Nietzsche says (SM, 821), “—the effect of artworks is arousal of the art-creating state, rapture.””

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 117

“The word “art” does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 125

“The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 26

“In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.”

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Martin Heidegger

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. xxxix

“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.”

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Martin Heidegger

Interview (23 September 1966), published posthumously in Der Spiegel (31 May 1976), as translated by William Richardson in Risk and Meaning, Nicolas Bouleau (translated by Dené Oglesby and Martin Crossley), ed. Springer, 2011 ISBN 978-3-642-17646-3, page 102.