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“This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.”

Quote by Martin Heidegger

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Martin Heidegger

German philosopher and a pioneer of existentialism, known for works such as 'Being and Time'. more

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“Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.”

Doe Facts Concerned Relation Existentialism Distinguished

Book:Being and Time

Source: Being and Time

“The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.”

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Book:Being and Time

Source: Being and Time

“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”

Mean Technology Essence Technological

Author:Martin Heidegger

“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.”

Way Today Technology Worst Essence Regard Blind Deny Conception Homage Chained Unfree

Author:Martin Heidegger

“From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.”

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Author:Martin Heidegger

“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.”

World Way Has Beens Possibility Decided Determine Affected Domination

Book:Being and Time

Source: Being and Time

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

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Being is only Being for Dasein.”

Author:Martin Heidegger

“In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.”

Wells Stills Known Worthy Well Known

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art