Quotes About Being

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history'

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. from "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950)

In his finitude each individual begins anew. For his maturing he depends upon authority in order to appropriate the content that can be handed on by tradition. As he grows up within authority, the arena in which he everywhere encounters being opens up to him. If he grows up without authority, he will indeed come to possess knowledge, he will master speaking and thinking, but he will remain at the mercy of the empty possibilities of the realm where Nothingness stares him in the face.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that which is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

It is not social consciousness that determines social being, but social being that determines social consciousness.

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.

When you are BE-ing the kind of person that is most desirable for you to BE, then you will automatically DO the best you can DO—then you will HAVE the peace and whatever else is most desirable in life for you to HAVE.

As you can see, instead of HAVING...DOING...BEING, life works in better harmony when you are BEING...DOING...HAVING. After all, you are NOT a human HAVE-ing nor a Human DO-ing. You are a human BE-ing.

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it.

Fine,' she said, using the universal Scottish word for every state of being from 'I'm dying in anguish' to 'I'm experiencing euphoric joy.' 'Fine,' she said. 'I'm fine.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.