Transcendence Constitutes Selfhood.

The Domination Of The Public Way In Which Things Have Been Interpreted Has Already Decided Upon Even The Possibilities Of Being Attuned, That Is, About The Basic Way In Which Da-sein Lets Itself Be Affected By The World. The They Prescribes That Attunement, It Determines What And How One "sees.

What Was Aristotle’s Life?’ Well, The Answer Lay In A Single Sentence: ‘he Was Born, He Thought, He Died.’ And All The Rest Is Pure Anecdote.

The Average, Vague Understanding Of Being Can Be Permeated By Traditional Theories And Opinions About Being In Such A Way That These Theories, As The Sources Of The Prevailing Understanding, Remain Hidden.

The World, In Resting Upon The Earth, Strives To Surmount It. As Self-opening It Cannot Endure Anything Closed. The Earth, However, As Sheltering And Concealing, Tends Always To Draw The World Into Itself And Keep It There

Why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing? That Is The Question. Presumably It Is Not Arbitrary Question, "why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing"- This Is Obviously The First Of All Questions. Of Course It Is Not The First Question In The Chronological Sense [...] And Yet, We Are Each Touched Once, Maybe Even Every Now And Then, By The Concealed Power Of This Question, Without Properly Grasping What Is Happening To Us. In Great Despair, For Example, When All Weight Tends To Dwindle Away From Things And The Sense Of Things Grows Dark, The Question Looms.