Distance (n.) is intricately tied up with dasein and is not estimated quantitatively as the distance between things but in everyday terms: 'a good walk' 'a stones throw' 'as long as it takes to smoke a pipe'.
Distance (n.) is intricately tied up with appropriateness. Paradoxically, for that which is too close, we can only bring it closer to us by pushing it away to an appropriate distance.
Distance (n.) is that alone through which we gain a true nearness to things.
Distance (n.) is not to be considered in objective physical terms, but in how close or far we are from the essence of things; that is, just because a jet can bring one closer to England than before, one does not have a greater proximity to what England’s essence.
Distance (n.) is defined in vague terms such as “a good walk,” “a stone’s throw,” or “as long as it takes to smoke a pipe.”
Distance (n.) is at our very core. distance. The human being is a creature of distance.
Distance (n.) is, in modernity, approached as a hasty setting aside (via airplanes, radio, television) which brings no nearness, for nearness does not consist in a small amount of distance.
Distance (n.) is, in modernity, destroyed. Modernity does not bring things nearer, rather, through the removal of great distances, everything comes to stand equally near and far. Everything washes together into the uniformly distanceless.
Distance (n.) is, in modernity, short in terms of length and yet ever remote to us. What is vastly far away in terms of length, can be near to us. Short distance is not already nearness. Great distance is not yet remoteness.