Dasein's Quotes

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

Martin Heidegger

#2. 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

#3. We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

M T Anderson

#4. The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Octavio Paz

#5. The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the simple fact that the same thing could be occurring under other skullcaps, in other locked rooms.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#7. 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

#8. Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

William J. Clinton

#9. People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

John Miller

#10. The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

Warren Spector

#11. I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Alanis Morissette

#12. One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Nora Ephron

#13. Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.

Debasish Mridha

#14. When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it
create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!

Laura Whitworth

#15. 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

#16. Being is only Being for Dasein

Martin Heidegger

#17. Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

Sam Neill

#18. 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

#19. Life itself was an improvisation in which I was going to have to deal with what came to me and not think about what should have come.

Alan Alda

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

Peter Kreeft