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Quotes from Heidegger

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
~ Heidegger
It gives time, we are not dealing with statements that are always fixed in the sentence structure of the subject-predicate relation. And yet, how else are we to bring the It into view which we say when we say It gives Being, It gives time? Simply by think-' ing the It in the light ofthe kind ofgiving that belongs to it: giving as destiny, giving as an opening up which reaches out. Both belong together, inasmuch as the former, destiny, lies in the latter, extending opening up
~ Heidegger
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
~ Heidegger
destined to founder in the ennui of a nothingness of insignificance that incubates this abandonment of Being that is proper to beings.
~ Heidegger
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
~ Heidegger
Hegel's thought is the most powerful thinking of modern times. ~heidegger
~ Heidegger
Es kann sein, daß wir dann eines Tages aus unserer Alltäglichkeit herausrücken und in die Macht der Dichtung einrücken müssen, daß wir nie mehr so in die Alltäglichkeit zurückkehren, wie wir sie verlassen haben.
~ Heidegger
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
~ Heidegger