Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The nothing itself does not attract; it is essentially repelling. But this repulsion is itself as such a parting gesture toward beings that are submerging as a whole. This wholly repelling gesture toward beings that are in retreat as a whole, which is the action of the nothing that oppresses Dasein in anxiety, is the essence of the nothing: nihilation. It is neither an annihilation of beings nor does it spring from a negation. Nihilation will not submit to calculation in terms of annihilation and negation. The nothing itself nihilates.
Heidegger
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Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
No two beings and no two situations are really commensurable with each other; To become aware of this is to undergo a sort of crisis.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.