Quotes About Heidegger

All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche's, is Christian.

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into care.

A bicycle, certainly, but not the bicycle " said he. "I am familiar with forty-two different impressions left by tyres. This as you perceive, is a Dunlop, with a patch upon the outer cover. Heidegger's tyres were Palmer's, leaving longitudinal stripes. Aveling, the mathematical master, was sure upon the point. Therefore, it is not Heidegger's track.

Heidegger sostiene que el hombre es un ser para la muerte; todo poeta, sin embargo, crea la resurrección, entona ante la muerte un hurra victorioso. Y si alguno piensa que exagero, quedará preso de los desastres, del demonio y de los círculos infernales.

Nishida has been sharply criticized after the war for lending his support to the imperial (ist) ideology of the Japanese government, but these criticisms have not led—as in Heidegger's case—to a thorough questioning of his philosophy.

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

Así es que después de abandonar la razón y la lógica, después de experimentar el aburrimiento real y el temor aterrador, develamos el último misterio de los misterios: la nada. Al final, todo es nada y la nada es todo. Con Heidegger, alcanzamos el nihilismo metafísico.

And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time

Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer. Martin Heidegger, 'Language

Perhaps the rivers of ink that have been expended discussing the nature of the "continuous" over the centuries, from Aristotle to Heidegger, have been wasted. Continuity is only a mathematical technique for approximating very finely grained things. The world is subtly discrete, not continuous. The good Lord has not drawn the world with continuous lines: with a light hand, he has sketched it in dots, like the painter Georges Seurat.

Eighty years ago, Martin Heidegger extolled Nazi Germany as providing the best hope for rescuing the glorious civilization of the Greeks from the barbarians of the East and West. Today, German bankers are crushing Greece under an economic regime designed to maintain their wealth and power.

World" as thought through Heidegger's work would be the mutually achieved composite of meaning and matter; what is disclosed—that is, what presents itself to us through our doing, saying, and making—is disclosed as already fitted into material environments and holistic forms of significance.

Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.

À la différence de l'analyse, qui se contente de décomposer un ensemble en ses éléments constituants et de la critique qui ne fait que juger, la déconstruction est un démontage consistant à mettre à nu ce qui dans une pensée, un texte, en constitue le point aveugle, impensé - encore un terme issu de Heidegger.

Heidegger is excited by Kant's suggestion that the "thing in itself" is not different from the appearance, but merely the same thing viewed under a different light.

I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.

Heidegger says that "the fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there anything at all rather than nothing?" The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, "what" a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God.

Nietzsche wanted to explode the framework of Occidental rationalism within which the competitors of Left and Right Hegelianism still moved. His antihumanism, continued by Heidegger and Bataille in two variations, is the real challenge for the discourse of modernity.

Basically Heidegger's thought emerges out of a distinction between tribal society or Gemeinschaft and commercial society or Gesellschaft.

In their response to nihilism both Nietzsche and Heidegger rely on what is perhaps the central tenet of fascism in all its forms: the idea that particular human ecologies are the ultimate source of meaning.

The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.

Mrs Husserl was reported on occasion to have introduced Heidegger to others as her husband's 'phenomenological child'.