Martin Heidegger

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

“Language is the house of being.”

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?”

“Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought.”

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”

“The possible is higher than the actual.”

“Questioning is the piety of thought.”

“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”

“Science does not think.”

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”

“To dwell is to be at peace in a protected place.”

“We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. Being's poem, just begun, is man.”

“What is spoken is never, and in no language, what is said.”

“The dreadful has already happened.”