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What shines into beings, though can never be explained on the basis of beings nor constructed out of beings, is Being itself.
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist
If we want to lay hold of Being it is always as if we were reaching into a void. The Being that we are asking about is almost like Nothing, and yet we are always trying to arm and guard ourselves against the presumption of saying that all beings are not. But Being remains undiscover-able, almost like Nothing, or in the end entirely so. The word "Being" is then finally just an empty word. It means nothing actual, tangible, real. Its meaning is an unreal vapor. So in the end Nietzsche is entirely right when he calls the "highest concepts" such as Being "the final wisp of evaporating reality"
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist
System comes from the Greek συνίστημι, I put together, and this can mean two things. First, order things in such a way that not only is what is present and occurring distributed and preserved according to an already existent network of places for example, the way the windowpane is inserted into a completed windowframe--but order in such a way that the order itself is thereby first projected. But this projection, if it is genuine, is not only thrown over things, not only dumped on top of them. A genuine projection throws beings apart in such a way that they precisely now become visible in the unity of their inmost jointure for example the jointure which determines a living thing, a living being, σύστημα τοῦ σώματος; we still speak today of the nervous system, of the systems of digestion and procreation.
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist
Plato says: Δεινόν γάρ που τοϋτ' έχει γραφή, και ώς αληθώς δμοιον ζωγραφία (cf. d4f.): "What is written is as uncanny as a painting." και γάρ τά εκείνης έκγονα έστηκε μέν ώς ζώντα (d5f.), what is presented in it looks as if it were alive, έάν δ" άνέρη τι, σεμνώς πάνυ σιγά (d6), yet "if you interrogate it, it maintains a solemn silence." Thus what is spoken and written is silent and delivers nothing. Plato then asks: δόξαις μέν αν ώς τι φρονοϋντας αυτούς λέγειν (d7f.); "do you really believe that what is written down could speak ώς τι φρονούν, as if it had understanding?" No, on the contrary, to anyone who wants to learn something on the basis of what is said there, "it always shows one and the same thing and no more"; έν τι σημαίνει μόνον ταύτόν άεί.
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist
This knowledge, this μάθημα, this making public in writing of what has been said, έν ψυχαΐς παρέξει, "will create in people λήθην, forgetting," or, more properly, λανθάνω, a concealing, a covering, "of themselves, in relation to what they have learned," τών μαθόντων. Hence what the god is offering will cover over in people precisely that to which they relate in their comportment toward the world and themselves, because the knowledge of writing entails άμελετησία μνήμης, "unconcern with retention," i.e., with retaining the things themselves. λόγος as communicated in writing is capable of promoting an unconcern with retaining the matters spoken of, i.e., with retaining them in their proper substantive content. And then comes the more precise reason: ἅτε διὰ πίστιν γραφῆς ἔξωθεν ὑπ᾽ ἀλλοτρίων τύπων, οὐκ ἔνδοθεν αὐτοὺς ὑφ᾽ αὑτῶν ἀναμιμνῃσκομένους (a3ff.). They will retain what they learn διά πίστιν γραφής, "by relying on what is written," Εξωθεν, "from the outside," i.e., on the basis of the written word, "by means of foreign signs," ones which have, in their own character, nothing at all to do with the matter they refer to.
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist
I liked how the first batch of Party Crashers incorrect quotes turned out, so here’s another, this time featuring Sophist and Brent!
(Once again, this isn’t meant to be interpreted as anything other than me finding them funny)
Another batch of Party Crashers Incorrect Quotes, this time with no specific duos. Enjoy!
To the surprise of absolutely nobody!
Eevee/Sophist when things don’t go his way