“Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.” WorldPathPessimismDecayNothingnessFormationRenounceAmbiguous Book:Nietzsche Source: Nietzsche
“The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees.” WorldWayHas BeensPossibilityDecidedDetermineAffectedDomination Book:Being and Time Source: Being and Time
“In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.” WorldCountryPhilosophyTodayAmericaFormUniverseResultsIntellectualProfitYieldConstructionElsewhereTechnologicalStrictAssuredProceduresLogisticsAnglo Saxon Author:Martin Heidegger
“The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.” WorldWayBelieveHomeLastsGraceLimitsGainsAll ThingsInsightOpeningGrantedRealmsScopeDoomAbsentProtectiveTangibleConcealedOpening UpLingeringSpaciousnessRemoteness Author:Martin Heidegger
“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.” PeopleMenWorldYearsHas BeensHelpingTodayPastSituationDestinyAchieveLimitsHappeningsTasksEssenceSocialismExplicit Author:Martin Heidegger
“Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.” WorldHumansPhilosophyAbleConditionsEffectsTransformationEndeavorHuman Thought Author:Martin Heidegger
“When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.” WorldModernMethodPhysicsFormulasEntityModern Physics Author:Martin Heidegger
“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.” ThinkingWorldStillsStarsSkyOne Day Author:Martin Heidegger
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.” WorldMeanNightPoetHolySingingFugitiveDestitute Author:Martin Heidegger
“The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.” WorldWayHumansBodyCreaturesSensesEntity Author:Martin Heidegger
“The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there” WorldSelfEarthDrawsStriveEndureOpeningStrifeConcealing Author:Martin Heidegger
“Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.” KnowsWorldSelfWonderStepsWho We AreMidstCelebrationQuestioningRestraintGlimpseMeditatingSelf RestraintAttentiveness Author:Martin Heidegger
