“Being is only Being for Dasein”
Macquarrie & Robinson translation
Being and Time (1927)
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German philosopher 1889–1976Related quotes
“Being Conservative is only another way of being British.”
Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947).
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“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
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“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
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“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”
As quoted in Seven Words to the Cross (1979) by Ellsworth Kalas, page 93
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“Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.”
Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65
“That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.”