“Who accomplishes the challenging setting-upon through which what we call the real is revealed as standing-reserve? Obviously, man. To what extent is man capable of such a revealing? Man can indeed conceive, fashion, and carry through this or that in one way or another. But man does not have control over unconcealment itself, in which at any given time the real shows itself or withdraws. The fact that the real has been showing itself in the light of Ideas ever since the time of Plato, Plato did not bring about. The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.” TruthDestinyTechnologyManRevealingUnconcealmentChallenging ForthSetting UponStanding Reserve Book:The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays Source: The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
“Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.” TechnologyRepresentational ThinkingCalculative Thinking Book:Poetry, Language, Thought Source: Poetry, Language, Thought
“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.” MeanTechnologyEssenceTechnological Author:Martin Heidegger
“Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.” WayTodayTechnologyWorstEssenceRegardBlindDenyConceptionHomageChainedUnfree Author:Martin Heidegger
“Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth” IfsWayGivingMeanWholeTechnologyEssenceMereRealmsRevealingHeed Author:Martin Heidegger
“The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth” MenFirstsDoeTechnologyPossibilityMachinesEssenceOriginalsThreatInstanceAffectedDeniedRevealingPrimal Author:Martin Heidegger
“The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass” TechnologyRevealingConstellationsConcealing 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
“So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.” LongTechnologyMastersInstruments Author:Martin Heidegger
