Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Martin HeideggerRead
True time is four-dimensional.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that time is not just a linear concept, but a complex, multi-dimensional aspect of existence.
Heidegger's quote reflects his philosophical inquiry into the nature of time, positing that true understanding of time extends beyond the conventional linear perception. Instead, it incorporates depth, acknowledging how past, present, and future coexist and influence our experience of the world.
In practice
A philosophy class discussing the nature of time might use this quote to illustrate Heidegger's concepts.
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration... is the only true religion I know of.
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
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