August 2011
DANGERS > LETLIVE.
“Thus if we properly pursue the question “Why are there beings
at all instead of nothing?” in its sense as a question, we must avoid
emphasizing any particular, individual being, not even focusing on
the human being. For what is this being, after all! Let us consider
the Earth within the dark immensity of space in the universe. We
can compare it to a tiny grain of sand; more than a kilometer of
emptiness extends between it and the next grain of its size; on the
surface of this tiny grain of sand lives a stupefied swarm of supposedly
clever animals, crawling all over each other, who for a brief
moment have invented knowledge.” —
at all instead of nothing?” in its sense as a question, we must avoid
emphasizing any particular, individual being, not even focusing on
the human being. For what is this being, after all! Let us consider
the Earth within the dark immensity of space in the universe. We
can compare it to a tiny grain of sand; more than a kilometer of
emptiness extends between it and the next grain of its size; on the
surface of this tiny grain of sand lives a stupefied swarm of supposedly
clever animals, crawling all over each other, who for a brief
moment have invented knowledge.” —
Martin Heidegger (via onthought)
“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?”
