How One Encounters Reality Is A Choice.

Freedom Is Only To Be Found Where There Is Burden To Be Shouldered. In Creative Achievements This Burden Always Represents An Imperative And A Need That Weighs Heavily Upon Man’s Mood, So That He Comes To Be In A Mood Of Melancholy. All Creative Action Resides In A Mood Of Melancholy, Whether We Are Clearly Aware Of The Fact Or Not, Whether We Speak At Length About It Or Not. All Creative Action Resides In A Mood Of Melancholy, But This Is Not To Say That Everyone In A Melancholy Mood Is Creative.

Tell Me How You Read And I'll Tell You Who You Are.

In Order To Remain Silent Da-sein Must Have Something To Say.

From Our Human Experience And History, At Least As Far As I Am Informed, I Know That Everything Essential And Great Has Only Emerged When Human Beings Had A Home And Were Rooted In A Tradition. Today's Literature Is, For Instance, Largely Destructive.

Questions Are Not Happenstance Thoughts Nor Are Questions Common Problems Of Today Which One Picks Up From Hearsay And Booklearning And Decks Out With A Gesture Of Profundity Questions Grow Out Of Confrontation With The Subject Matter And The Subject Matter Is There Only Where Eyes Are, It Is In This Manner That Questions Will Be Posed And All The More Considering That Questions That Have Today Fallen Out Of Fashion In The Great Industry Of Problems. One Stands Up For Nothing More Than The Normal Running Of The Industry. Philosophy Interprets Its Corruption As The Resurrection Of Metaphysics.