Quotes About Existence

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

But even assuming this: Language would be actually spoken according to all of its directions and possibilities, and were the thrust of an earthquake now immediately to take place so that the whole community was numbed mute by fear, would language then cease to be?

Ser significa habitar persistiendo a través de los espacios sobre la base de la permanencia junto a cosas y lugares.

Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.

Für die Götter kommen wir zu spät und zu früh für das Seyn.

As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into care.

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

Poetically dwells man upon this earth.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

The task of the grounding of Da-sein by way of thinking and poetry overcomes the question of possibility. That question—How is such and such possible?—is the last implementation of mathematical thinking, which is the result of the dominance of the proposition as such, which in turn is the result of the collapse of ???????.

The ontology of life is accomplished by way of a privative Interpretation; it determines what must be the case if there can be anything like mere-aliveness [Nur-noch-leben].

man's Being, is 'defined' as the ???? ????? ????—as that living thing whose Being is essentially determined by the potentiality for discourse.

El tiempo deberá ser sacado a la luz y deberá ser concebido genuinamente como el horizonte de toda comprensión del ser y de todo modo de interpretarlo (pag. 28)

Understanding the call, Dasein listens to its ownmost possibility of existence. It has chosen itself.

Everything has always already been said. And yet this same possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.

l'??????? és l'esguardar de l'ésser endins de l'obert que ell mateix, i en tant que ell mateix, ha il·luminat, i que és obert per a l'il·latent de tot aparèixer.»

Man is the shepherd of Being.

Tendríamos que aprender a reconocer que las cosas mismas son los lugares y que no se limitan a pertenecer a un lugar.

Y qué sería del vacío del espacio? Con demasiada frecuencia, el vacío aparece tan sólo como una falta. El vacío pasa entonces por una falta de algo que llene los espacios huecos y los intersticios. Sin embargo, el vacío está presumiblemente hermanado con el carácter peculiar del lugar y, por ello, no es un echar en falta, sino un producir.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Some hominid species may persist for more than a million years, but not forever, and the same will probably be true of us. We are not part of an ongoing and unique surge towards human progress; we are finite components of a natural world that is changing and ephemeral.