Truth Is That Which Makes

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.

We Still By No Means Think Decisively Enough About The Essence Of Action.

The Human Being Is Not The Lord Of Beings, But The Shepherd Of Being.

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.

The Small Are Always Dependent On The Great; They Are "small" Precisely Because They Think They Are Independent. The Great Thinker Is One Who Can Hear What Is Greatest In The Work Of Other "greats" And Who Can Transform It In An Original Manner.