#being
10 quotes
“ie, by beings. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize”
“Introduction to Metaphysics”
“This Europe , which in its ruinous blindness is forever on the point of cutting its own throat, lies today in a great pincers, squeezed between Russia on one side and America on the other. From a metaphysical point of view, Russia and America are the same: the same dreary technological frenzy, the same unrestricted organization of the average man...”
“What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. Introduction to Metaphysics”
“cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil .”
“What is Metaphysics? (1929), p. 110”
“Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage. Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.”
“Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Essence of Ground”
“The desire to philosophize from the standpoint of standpointlessness, as a purportedly genuine and superior objectivity, is either childish, or, as is usually the case, disingenuous. The Essence of Truth, 1931”
“( Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte”