Is The Earth In Our Head? Or

The Average, Vague Understanding Of Being Can Be Permeated By Traditional Theories And Opinions About Being In Such A Way That These Theories, As The Sources Of The Prevailing Understanding, Remain Hidden.

Time Is Not A Thing, Thus Nothing Which Is, And Yet It Remains Constant In Its Passing Away Without Being Something Temporal Like The Beings In Time.

And So Man, As Existing Transcendence Abounding In And Surpassing Toward Possibilities, Is A Creature Of Distance. Only Through The Primordial Distances He Establishes Toward All Being In His Transcendence Does A True Nearness To Things Flourish In Him.

Form Displays The Relation [to Beings] Itself As The State Of Original Comportment Toward Beings, The Festive State In Which The Being Itself In Its Essence Is Celebrated And Thus For The First Time Placed In The Open.

If In Nietzsche's Thinking The Prior Tradition Of Western Thought Is Gathered And Completed In A Decisive Respect, Then The Confrontation With Nietzsche Becomes One With All Western Thought Hitherto.