Dasein Heidegger Quotes

#1. Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

Martin Heidegger

#2. There is much talk nowadays of blood and soil [Blut und Boden] as frequently invoked powers. Literati, whom one comes across even today, have already seized hold of them. Blood and soil are certainly powerful and necessary, but they are not a sufficient condition for the Dasein of a people.

Martin Heidegger

#3. 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.

Martin Heidegger

#4. Has Dasein as itself ever freely decided, and will it ever be able to decide, whether it wants to come into "Dasein" or not?

Martin Heidegger

#5. In its factical existence, any particular Dasein either 'has the time' or 'does not have it'. It either 'takes time' for something or 'cannot allow any time for it'. Why does Dasein 'take time', and why can it 'lose' it? Where does it take time from? How is this time related to Dasein's temporality?

Martin Heidegger

#6. Being is only Being for Dasein

Martin Heidegger

#7. Heidegger's concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means 'being-there'.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#8. I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.

Kevin Martin

#9. Come on, think. If I were an immortal, ethereal Unicorn, where would I be parking my shiny-assed self?" "Right behind you, Mr. Fraser.

Bryan Fields

#10. What Satan means to me-Satan is a stabilizing force in my life. It gives me a reason to be; it gives me-an excuse to rationalize. There is a part of me that believes he really does exist. I have my doubts, but we all do, about many things.

Richard Ramirez

#11. This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

Martin Heidegger

#12. When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Brandy Norwood

#13. Dasein itself
and this means also its Being-in-the-world
gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not but which it encounters 'within' its world, and from the Being which they possess.

Martin Heidegger

#14. And worst of all, what if you don't know what you like at all? What if nothing sticks? Then you spend half your life wondering what it is you're supposed to be doing next. What happens after that?

Jami Attenberg

#15. Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape ... there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor

Tad Williams

#16. Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Elie Wiesel