Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.
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Make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being.
The legs, for example, of that chair – how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for “I” was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were “they”) being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.
Dasein itself – and this means also its Being-in-the-world – gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not but which it encounters ‘within’ its world, and from the Being which they possess.
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The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which ‘external’ things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies…. They tell us nothing about entities in their Being.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?