Longing Is The Agony Of The Nearness

What Was Aristotle’s Life?’ Well, The Answer Lay In A Single Sentence: ‘he Was Born, He Thought, He Died.’ And All The Rest Is Pure Anecdote.

We Do Not Say: Being Is, Time Is, But Rather: There Is Being And There Is Time.

Nietzsche ... Does Not Shy From Conscious Exaggeration And One-sided Formulations Of His Thought, Believing That In This Way He Can Most Clearly Set In Relief What In His Vision And In His Inquiry Is Different From The Run-of-the-mill.

The Small Are Always Dependent On The Great; They Are "small" Precisely Because They Think They Are Independent. The Great Thinker Is One Who Can Hear What Is Greatest In The Work Of Other "greats" And Who Can Transform It In An Original Manner.

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.