Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

The Letter on Humanism, with a short guide beside you, after you know he is answering Sartre. It is the source of the sentence this library can stand behind. Being and Time is the book, and it is not a book to meet first through a single line.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Martin Heidegger that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “Language is the house of being.” (Letter on Humanism (1947), Paraphrase or translation).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for Martin Heidegger is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Being: The question the tradition forgot, in his telling, by treating being as the most obvious word.