Quotes About Being

All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of Temporal truth, veritas temporalis.

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

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.»

Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of spirit and hence for an originary world of historical Dasein. It is indispensable if the peril of world-darkening [Weltverdüsterung] is to be forestalled and if our Volk at the center of the West is to take on its historical mission.

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.

It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too.

is obviously high time that the Jewish conception of nature, at any rate in regard to animals, should come to an end in Europe, and that the eternal being which, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal should be recognized as such, and as such treated with care and consideration.

The eternal being which, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal ... the animal is in essence absolutely the same thing that we are. - On Religion

The eternal being, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

That which has been exists no more; it exists as little as that which has never been.

Forma dat rei essentiam, materia existentiam.

One man is more concerned with the impression which he makes upon the rest of mankind; another, with the impression which the rest of mankind makes upon him. The disposition of the one is subjective; of the other, objective; the one is, in the whole of his existence, more in the nature of an idea which is merely presented; the other, more of the being who presents it.

Do mesmo modo como nosso corpo é coberto por roupas, nosso espírito é coberto por mentiras. Nosso discurso, nossa acção, todo o nosso ser é mentiroso: e somente olhando através desse invólucro é possível, vez por outra, descobrir os nossos sentimentos, assim como através das roupas se descobre a forma do corpo.

Our brains are not the wisest parts of us. In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulse (an instinct) - proceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.

Nos habitat, non tartara, sed nee sider coeli: Spiritus, in nobis qui viget, illafacit.

it is worthy of consideration, indeed marvelous, how besides his life in concreto, a person always leads a second in abstracto as well.