"Being and Time" Quotes

Being-in-the-world is the kind of being in which Dasein is, in each case, its own possibilities.

Anxiety reveals the world as world, and at the same time, as that in the face of which Dasein is anxious.

The 'world' as world is the disclosedness of Dasein's being-in-the-world. It is in itself and for itself.

Conscience discloses Dasein's potentiality-for-Being-guilty.

The 'they' prescribes one's state-of-mind, and discloses one's understanding to itself.

Authentic existence requires that Dasein take hold of its own unique individuality.

Temporality is the way in which Dasein exists as a being whose being is an issue for it.

Dasein is essentially care, and care is essentially temporal.

Understanding is constitutive for the being of Dasein.

Dasein has the possibility of choosing itself - and it does so by taking over its own thrownness.