“From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.” KnowsHumansHomeTodayLiteratureHuman BeingsEssentialsTraditionInstanceDestructiveRootedHuman Experience Author:Martin Heidegger
“Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.” WorldHumansPhilosophyAbleConditionsEffectsTransformationEndeavorHuman Thought Author:Martin Heidegger
“The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.” HumansBodyAnimalPhilosophicalOrganismsHuman Body Author:Martin Heidegger
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.” HumansHuman BeingsLordPhilosophicalShepherds Author:Martin Heidegger
“The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.” WorldWayHumansBodyCreaturesSensesEntity Author:Martin Heidegger
“The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control” HumansTechnologySlipsMasteryUrgent Author:Martin Heidegger
“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.” KnowsHumansFactsHuman BeingsEssentialsTraditionRootedHomeland Author:Martin Heidegger
