Curiosity (n.) is always concealed arrogance of a self-consciousness that banks on a self-inverted ratio of its rationality. The will to know does not will to abide in hope before what is worthy of thought.
Curiosity (n.) is the preference not to dwell on something definitively and thematically, but to jump from one thing to another as a curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of being of everyday dasein a kind in which dasein is constantly uprooting itself.
Curiosity (n.) is, when free, concerned with seeing... not in order to understand what is seen . . . But just in order to see. . . . Curiosity [thus] has nothing to do with observing entities and marvelling at them.
Curiosity (n.) is bad thing — it jumps from one superficial novelty to the next, never cares to see anything deeply, and distracts us from being-in-the-world.
Curiosity (n.) is a form of inauthenticity (structured temporally by the future) that tranquillizes with ever-new forms of distraction.
Curiosity (n.) is a form of inauthenticity (structured temporally by the future) which grasps nothing deeply, never comes to rest, is rootless, and is perfectly satisfied by the outer contours of things, shifting from one to the next as rapidly as possible.
Curiosity (n.) is a search for novelty and endless stimulation rather than belonging or dwelling.
Curiosity (n.) is, as neugierig, an avarice (gier) of the new (neu), an everyday tendency of Dasein to let itself be restlessly carried along solely by the way the world appears.