L. Klages describes the "progress philistine" as follows: "Listen to him chattering about how far "we" have come, how wonderful is the time in which "we" live, and how delightful are the gadgets that are available to "us"... Everything that he says sounds like the babbling of a carnival conjuror, everything that he says reveals … Continue reading The Progress-Philistine

From "The Anaximander Fragment", by Martin Heidegger, translated by D.F. Krell. "As it reveals itself in beings, Being withdraws. "In this way, by illuminating them, Being sends being adrift in errancy. Beings come to pass in that errancy by which they circumvent Being and establish the realm of error (in the sense of a prince's … Continue reading Error and History according to Heidegger

6.4311    Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.    Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist  ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.   (Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus" )