A Serious guide to Being and Time Quotes

“All persons repeat behaviours [ways of existing]. If, as is normal, we repeat past behaviours out of habit then we forget the past (i.e., forget the values which gave us our original reasons for existing as we did, see forgetting). Only when we repeat past behaviours out of an ongoing re-commitment to our chosen values are we existing resolutely.”
― Steven Foulds, A Serious guide to Being and Time

“It is only the mistaken idea of the idealised subject [the 'pure I'] being 'in here' while objects of knowledge are 'out there' in a world of which we are not essentially part, that makes scepticism even thinkable”
― Steven Foulds, A Serious guide to Being and Time

“Curiosity, for which nothing is closed off, and idle talk, for which everything is supposedly understood, provide persons with the guarantee of a 'life' which, supposedly, is genuinely 'lively'.”
― Steven Foulds, A Serious guide to Being and Time