“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”

“Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superuous, and we lose...”

“In order to live a meaningful life,humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These answers do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words do...”

“A utopia cannot, by denition, include boredom, but the utopia we are living in is boring.”

“Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.”

“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”