“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
― Being and Time
― Being and Time
“Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite division, like the dimensionless point.”
― Being and Nothingness
― Being and Nothingness
“Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.”
― Being and Time
― Being and Time
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”
― The Elementary Particles
― The Elementary Particles
“From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.”
― Being and Nothingness
― Being and Nothingness
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