Skip to content

There is an idea that technology is in its essence something human beings have under their control. In my opinion, that is not possible. Technology is in its essence something that human beings cannot master of their own accord.

— Martin Heidegger

Another quote →

Variants

In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.

Topics

Philosophy

More quotes by Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

Being and Time (1927)

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Letter on Humanism (1947)

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

Nietzsche (1961)

Existential analytics [the object of the book] decides nothing about the existence of God, about human freedom and the immortality of the soul.

Being and Time (1927)

All Martin Heidegger quotes →

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Heidegger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.