So Long As We Represent Technology As

Why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing? That Is The Question. Presumably It Is Not Arbitrary Question, "why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing"- This Is Obviously The First Of All Questions. Of Course It Is Not The First Question In The Chronological Sense [...] And Yet, We Are Each Touched Once, Maybe Even Every Now And Then, By The Concealed Power Of This Question, Without Properly Grasping What Is Happening To Us. In Great Despair, For Example, When All Weight Tends To Dwindle Away From Things And The Sense Of Things Grows Dark, The Question Looms.

Transcendence Constitutes Selfhood.

Time-space As Commonly Understood, In The Sense Of The Distance Measured Between Two Time-points, Is The Result Of Time Calculation.

In No Way Can It Be Uttered, As Can Other Things, Which One Can Learn. Rather, From Out Of A Full, Co-existential Dwelling With The Thing Itself - As When A Spark, Leaping From The Fire, Flares Into Light - So It Happens, Suddenly, In The Soul, There To Grow, Alone With Itself.

I See The Situation Of Man In The World Of Planetary Technicity Not As An Inexitricable And Inescapable Destiny, But I See The Task Of Thought Precisely In This, That Within Its Own Limits It Helps Man As Such Achieve A Satisfactory Relationship To The Essence Of Technicity. National Socialism Did Indeed Go In This Direction. Those People, However, Were Far Too Poorly Equipped For Thought To Arrive At A Really Explicit Relationship To What Is Happening Today And Has Been Underway For The Past 300 Years.