“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our natural point of departure Daseins everyday interpretation of the Self. In *saying* *I*, Dasein expresses itself about itself. It is not ne...”

“The I is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the I, nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts. Consciousness in itself (is) not so much a representationa...”

“But how does it come about that while the I think gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically, and has to fall back on the subjectthat is to say, something *s...”

“What is the motive for this fugitive way of saying I? It is motivated by Daseins falling; for as falling, it *flees* in the face of itself into the they. When the I talks in the natural manner, thi...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”

“The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

“I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”