Characteristics Quote by 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 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

“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

“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 we see it not always as it is, there may be a veil on it

— Zeeshan Hasan

“Then know that Allah has described Himself as the Outawardly Manifest and the Inwardly Hidden; He brought the universe into existence as a Visible…

— Ibn Arabi

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

— Elie Wiesel

“This is the way in which everyday Dasein always is: when I open the door, for instance, I use the latch. The achieving of…

— Lee Braver

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and…

— Bayazid Bastami

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

— Plutarch

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

— Fred Hoyle

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless,…

— Honore de Balzac