Martin Heidegger citations (85 citations, Page 3)

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

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

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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.”

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Qu’est-ce qu’une chose, 1962

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

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“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”

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sérénité
Questions III et IV

sortie , faute , temps , distance

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

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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.”

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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

“In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.”

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Der Spiegel Interview with Martin Heidegger, 1966

“The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."”

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Martin Heidegger livre Être et Temps

Stambaugh translation
Being and Time (1927)

“We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed”

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Macquarrie & Robinson translation, ¶9
Being and Time (1927)

“Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.”

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Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
Being and Time (1927)

“It is said that "being" is the most universal and the emptiest concept. As such it resists every attempt at definition. Nor does this most universal and thus indefinable concept need any definition. Everybody uses it constantly and also already understands what is meant by it.”

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Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
Being and Time (1927)

“But in fact there is no circle at all in the formulation of our question. Beings can be determined in their being without the explicit concept of the meaning of being having to be already available. If this were not so there could not have been as yet any ontological knowledge. And probably no one would deny the factual existence of such knowledge. It is true that "being" is "presupposed" in all previous ontology, but not as an available concept-not as the sort of thing we are seeking.”

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Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
Being and Time (1927)

“Do the essences of proposition and of the truth determine themselves from out of the essence of the thing, or does the essence of the thing determine itself from out of the essence of the proposition? The question is posed as an either/or. However does this either/or itself suffice? Are the essence of the thing and the essence of the proposition only built as mirror images because both of them together determine themselves from out of the same but deeper lying root? However, what and where can be this common ground for the essence of the thing and of the proposition and of their origin? The unconditioned (Unbedingt)? We stated at the beginning that what conditions the essense of the thing in its thingness can no longer itself be thing and conditioned, it must be an unconditioned (Un-bedingtes). p. 47”

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What Is A Thing? (1935, 1968)

“What is a thing?”

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is historical, because every report of the past, that is of the preliminaries to the question about the thing, is concerned with something static. This kind of historical reporting is an explicit shutting down of history, whereas it is, after all, a happening. We question historically if we ask what is still happening even if it seems to be past. We ask what is still happening and whether we remain equal to this happening so that it can really develop. p. 43
What Is A Thing? (1935, 1968)

“Here is the chalk." This is a truth; and here and the now hereby characterize the chalk so that we emphasize by saying; the chalk, which means "this." We take a scrap of paper and we write the truth down: "Here is the chalk.”

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We lay this written statement beside the thing of which it is the truth. After the lecture is finished both doors are opened, the classroom is aired, there will be a draft, and the scrap of paper, let us suppose, will flutter out into the corridor. A student finds it on his way to the cafeteria, reads the sentence. "Here is the chalk," and ascertains that this is not true at all. Through the draft the truth has become an untruth. Strange that a truth should depend on a gust of wind. ... We have made the truth about the chalk independent of us and entrusted it to a scrap of paper. p. 29-30
What Is A Thing? (1935, 1968)