Longing Is The Agony Of The Nearness

Why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing? That Is The Question. Presumably It Is Not Arbitrary Question, "why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing"- This Is Obviously The First Of All Questions. Of Course It Is Not The First Question In The Chronological Sense [...] And Yet, We Are Each Touched Once, Maybe Even Every Now And Then, By The Concealed Power Of This Question, Without Properly Grasping What Is Happening To Us. In Great Despair, For Example, When All Weight Tends To Dwindle Away From Things And The Sense Of Things Grows Dark, The Question Looms.

Philosophy Will Not Be Able To Effect An Immediate Transformation Of The Present Condition Of The World. This Is Not Only True Of Philosophy, But Of All Merely Human Thought And Endeavor.

Profound Boredom, Drifting Here And There In The Abysses Of Our Existence Like A Muffling Fog, Removes All Things And Men And Oneself Along With It Into A Remarkable Indifference. This Boredom Reveals Being As A Whole.

The Human Body Is Essentially Something Other Than An Animal Organism.

The Threat To Man Does Not Come In The First Instance From The Potentially Lethal Machines And Apparatus Of Technology. The Actual Threat Has Already Affected Man In His Essence. The Rule Of Enframing Threatens Man With The Possibility That It Could Be Denied To Him To Enter Into A More Original Revealing And Hence To Experience The Call Of A More Primal Truth