Quotes by Martin Heidegger

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

“...Nature is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature. The wood is a forest of timber, the mountain a quarry of rock; the river is water-power, the wind is wind in the sails. As the environment is discovered, the Nature thus discovered is encountered too. If its kind of Being as ready-to-hand is disregarded, this Nature itself can be discovered and defined simply in its pure presence-at-hand. But when this happens, the Nature which stirs and strives, which assails us and enthralls us as landscape, remains hidden. The botanists plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow; the source which the geographer establishes for a river is not the springhead in the dale.”