Karl LowithThinkers

Martin Heidegger is a reserved and insecure man, unable to look into another’s eyes, for he lacked the gift of candid communication with other people. Hence his natural expression was one of cautious, peasant-sly mistrust

Zeitgeist is the temporal axis of national-character. It originally meant the sum total of the spirit of generations through the ages and came to mean the principle of a certain historical period as it conceives of itself.