Martin Heidegger, about the true Self

 

 

Martin Heidegger asked an important question:

 

 

"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

Martin Heidegger (”Introduction to Metaphysics”)

 

 

 He also asked the most important question:

 

  

“Do we know ourselves – our ‘self’?

How are we supposed to be ourselves, if we are not our selves?

And how can we be ourselves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?”

Martin Heidegger (“Contributions to Philosophy”)

 

 

Martin Heidegger did not refer to the person, but to our essential Beingness, as the Presence that precedes the Ego, and he described it  as : “There is”

 

 

He understood the nature of reality, as we can see from the following statements:

 

 

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself.”

Martin Heidegger (“Being and Time”)

 

 

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

 

 

For some , the truth of these statements will find confirmation in their inner knowing, and they will understand exactly what Heidegger is saying:

 

“Only he who already understands can listen.”

Martin Heidegger (“Being and Time”)