Martin Heidegger Quotes About Existentialism
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
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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.
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This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
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