Quote by Barbara Bolt

“Heidegger’s concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means ‘being-there’.We are the sort of beings who are there,…

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Heidegger spoke of two modes of existence: the everyday mode and the ontological mode. In the everyday mode we are consumed with and distracted…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.”

— Leo Strauss

“In order to minimize presuppositions, Heidegger starts by examining Dasein in its “average everydayness,” that is, what we are like most of the time.…

— Lee Braver

“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.'…

— Robert Kegan

One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind…

— David E. Cooper

“...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Who is human being? He is the crazy person who constantly puts unnecessary burdens on himself, who is crushed like an insect under these…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone,…

— John Vaillant

“being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.”

— Jeanette Winterson