Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927)

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The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."

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Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.

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Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.

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Far from being, in fact, a commonplace event, death means our last opportunity, the core of our being.

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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

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Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

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The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

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Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

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