Existential Thought Quotes

“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 of this, or rather for just this reason, it is ontologically that which is farthest. To be sure, its ownmost Being is such that it has an understanding of that Being, and already maintains itself in each case as if its Being has been interpreted in some manner. But we are certainly not saying that when Dasein's own Being is thus interpreted pre-ontologically in the way which lies closest, this interpretation can be taken over as an appropriate clue, as if this way of understanding Being is what must emerge when one's ownmost state of Being is considered as an ontological theme. The kind of Being which belongs to Dasein is rather such that, in understanding its own Being, it has a tendency to do so in terms of that entity towards which it comports itself proximally and in a way which is essentially constant―in terms of the 'world'. In Dasein itself, and therefore in its own understanding of Being, the way the world is understood is, as we shall show, reflected back ontologically upon the way in which Dasein itself gets interpreted.

Thus because Dasein is ontico-ontologically prior, its own specific state of Being (if we understand this in the sense of Dasein's 'categorial structure') remains concealed from it. Dasein is ontically 'closest' to itself and ontologically farthest; but pre-ontologically it is surely not a stranger."

―from_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, pp. 36-37”
― Martin Heidegger

“Nietzsche said we will never rid ourselves of God because we have too much faith in grammar/language.

Lacan said because of the religious tenets of language, religion will triumph.

Chomsky, master linguist, says 'there are no skeptics. You can discuss it in a philosophy seminar but no human being can - in fact - be a skeptic.'

These musings shed light on Soren K's leap to faith idea. This is more nuanced than the circular leap of faith argument he's been wrongly accused of...

Soren is saying that, as we use the logic of language to express existence and purpose, we will always leap TO faith in a superior, all encompassing, loving force that guides our lives.

This faith does not negate our reason. It simply implies that the reasoning of this superior force is superior to our own. Edwin Abbott crystalizes this in Flatland.”
― Dr. Chester Elijah Branch, Lecture Notes

“Considering my philosophical attempt around the knowledge that seeks to touch spiritual splendors and essences filled with naturalness and concreteness, through the lived experience of man as man: the poem thought tends to become a “sign” of the passage from the finite into the infinite, having its roots implanted in one’s own being.

Otherwise, the “insignia” were not born on barren ground, but rather through the being of poiematics and ideatics unfolded within the architectonics of this volume — bringing into discussion, ultimately, both the depths of the ring of the visible material world and the adventure of all knowledge, as an effect of the “high” ascent of consciousness, a form of reflection of micro and macro cosmic realities, implicitly of the intra mundane reality, while man himself, becoming aware of the cosmic Self, comes to define his own universal essences and valences.

Practically, the volume “Însemnele materiei” was intended to be a book of heart and soul for the contemporary reader and for the reader to come — a small lyrical treatise on being and becoming, with man and his needs for knowledge placed in the foreground, in accordance with the current level of understanding of the place he occupies in the Universe, with man as the “being” of universal becoming.”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , Însemnele materiei / Insegne della materia

“Looking at its portrait, somebody was observing that the image revealed itself in a flexible hypostasis of sensitive light and plenitude, a vivid and prosperous efflorescence of its interior seas in continuous movement, simultaneously generated by the spectrum of the alternative between an excess of beauty and purity; that the profound strata structure a singularity, a minuscule sphere whose mysterious kinetic resides in the fact that the precise universal, in a natural synthetic circumstance, aims at keeping its perpetual equilibrium between the distinct possibility, in the end, to finalize things and the flow of imagination in perfect accordance with the strict laws of gravity.

Looking at its portrait toward the infinitude, somebody was noticing that its image, in the state of graciousness, ready to turn into the very Spirit, was shading the quantum theory of gravity as an essential possibility of action to finalize things in the vastness of the eternal night; that the aura of the aura was waving through its own image like in a phantom game, from the infinite to the infinite, in the celestial spectrum of Vibration. (Image)”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , Addéndum