Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.
Category Archive: Martin Heidegger
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.