Martin Heidegger
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Absence is not nothing... rather it is precisely the presence of the hidden fullness and wealth of what has been... a no-longer, which is, in itself, a not-yet of the veiled arrival of its inexhaustible nature.
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Absence is the true being of a thing, not presence. When, for example, we describe a candle, there is always something more to it than whatever we see or say. It always withdraws from human view into a shadowy background, even when we stare directly at them.
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Action is a kind of observation with its own kind of sight. It is a kind of looking without visuality.
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An Affect is often focused on negatively, whereas joy, beauty, and graciousness, etc. Should not be left to feeling and experience, but should also be taken up as objects of thought.
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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
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Aletheia is a conception of truth dependent not on the accuracy of representations in reality but on the act of disclosure, uncovering unconcealing. It concerns bringing things out of hiddenness and unforgetting.
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Aletheia is light always struggling with the powers of darkness, lodged in a field of strife. Openness is always threatened and defined against what threatens it.
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Aletheia is not a skeleton key that unlocks all the enigmas of thought. Rather, it is the enigma itself the matter of thought.
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Aletheia is the deep structure that clears the way for the history of being to follow. It is accessible to us as one aspect of the experience of being, but structurally aletheia is the very condition of possibility for being itself.
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Aletheia is truth as disclosure whereby disclosedness is the basic character of da-sein in accordance with which it is its there.
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Aletheia is truth, but it is perhaps best translated as this kind of unconcealment, the revealing manifestation of what is.
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America is less a geographical place than a temporal situation. It is a moment in history, the spatial manifestation of the temporal fact of the 'darkening of the world' and the 'forgetting of being' that is the basic feature of the modern age.
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America is representative of the ahistorical, the inability to situate oneself meaningfully in time. He is homeless, uprooted, nothing exists to be transmitted or handed down to later generations, he living in a perpetual present, and, paradoxically, the only permanent condition is the continual quest for the always new of permanent change.
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America is the example par excellence of a collectivity of persons that is nor a true people/nation. It is an ahistorical attitude that is waging war on the historical sense of europe.
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America is the site where developments in philosophy, the humanities, and social sciences have moved furthest towards specialization. This segmentation (or fragmentation) of knowledge into different specialties reflects the governing thought that knowledge is meant to master reality and to make objects calculable.
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America is a term indicating the more general deformation of all the advanced modern languages, which entails a transformation from a medium with a poetic function able to capture the particular and the distinctive into a bland vehicle for technical communication, whatever the language one is supposedly using.
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Americanism is consumerism, which is more than a mere desire for material convenience or security but epitomizes a fundamental attitude to reality. In modern technological society, life is characterized by the 'reign of the ersatz,' in which everything and everybody is replaceable. We as modern consumers do not replace goods because they are worn out or defective, but because we value them only temporarily, constantly waiting for something new to thrill us. This we do to fill a void in our lives.
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Americanism is homogenization, one-dimensional life, and the elimination of difference.