Birth: October 4, 1903 Death: December 21, 1990
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,'….
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonde….
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always chan….
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly….
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitu….
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, i….
A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statement….
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which ou….
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us..