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 constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
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,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm… — Medard Boss Copy Share
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 our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in… — Medard Boss Copy Share
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 entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique… — Medard Boss Copy Share
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, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is… — Medard Boss Copy Share
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition.… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
