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“It is important to bear in mind that the ‘world,’ the 'domain of all domains,’ 'that which is unequal to itself,’ 'unprethinkable Being,’ 'the absolute,’ etc., are always already part of the cobweb of predicates. This means that inconsistency is not a state of affairs, a primordial nameless tohubohu in the beginning happily waiting to be ordered by the divine word. It rather co-originates with logical space as such.”

— Markus Gabriel, ‘The Mythological Being of Reflection’ 

I have a tendency to distance myself from people I love. It’s as if their images developed such power in me that their physical presence becomes intolerable. The man who murders his mistress chooses the opposite path: to possess her he extinguishes her likeness. Perhaps this is how immortals treat us.

Ernst Junger, A German officer in occupied Paris, 14 October 1942

“…Being itself is the source of contingency. Being is nothing other than a side effect of the transfinite, nontotalizable plurality of fields of sense. Being, thus, is not conceived in terms of something given in advance, it is not some metaphysical entity behind or beyond appearance. There is no underlying reality, because there is only a plurality of fields of sense. […] Being is manifold. However, this plurality is not quantifiable, but is rather a plurality of fields of sense, each which simulates an origin, hints at something that cannot be given to any particular field of sense.”

— Markus Gabriel, ‘Transcendental Ontology' 

The true leaders of the world are at home in their graves.

Ernst Junger, A German officer in occupied Paris, 23 November 1941

Freedom in the twentieth century sense cannot be restored, as many people still dream. It must rise up to new and freezing heights of the historical process and higher still: like an eagle soaring above the turrets that tower above the chaos. Even freedom must pass through the pain. It must be earned again.

Αύτά μέν ούν καθ' έαυτά λεγόμενα τά ρήματα ονόματα έστι και σημαίνει τι (ίστησι γάρ ό λέγων τήν διάνοιαν, και ό άκούσας ήρέμησεν): [Verbs themselves, spoken by themselves, are names and signify something (for the one speaking brings his thinking to a halt and the one listening pauses):] "Whoever says something brings the process of opining to a standstill." When we naturally go along living, then the world is here. We deal with it, we are preoccupied with it. If a word is then spoken, the process of opining is placed before something; in understanding the word I linger with that thing; in meaning something, I have come to a pause. He who listens pauses in understanding the word: ό άκούσας ήρέμησεν. In understanding the word, I pause with what it means. 

Martin Heidegger, Basic Problems