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“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.”

Book:Nietzsche

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Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's writings explore themes of existentialism, morality, and the nature of God, influencing modern philosophy and culture. more

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Martin Heidegger

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

“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.”

Knows Humans Home Today Literature Human Beings Essentials Tradition Instance Destructive Rooted Human Experience

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.”

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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

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