Dasein Quote by Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

“For Heidegger, the central question concerning Being is not the everyday activities or practices of human beings, but rather what such activities and practices…

— Barbara Bolt

“...Dasein itself--and this means also its Being-in-the-world--gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not…

— Martin Heidegger

“Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each of us, we ourselves. In spite…

— Martin Heidegger

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being…

— Martin Heidegger

“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

“What is critical to being-in-the-world, says Heidegger, is not predicated on what we know about the world but rather on knowing how to live…

— Barbara Bolt

“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

“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

“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-one’s-Self…

— Martin Heidegger

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

“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door, and Sein,…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of intimacy and…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits