Martin Heidegger Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• 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.

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Essence, Today

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

• The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Technology, Essence

  1949 'The Question Concerning Technology', collected in Basic Writings (1977).

• 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

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Men, Essence

• 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

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Technology, Essence

• The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Mastery, Humans

• 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

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Revealing, Constellations

• So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Long, Masters

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