The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

Dasein, the I (the ego), is not put into question at all. This illusion and this ambiguity of a critical stance runs right through the whole of modern philosophy up to the most recent present

in philosophizing the Da-sein in man launches the attack upon man.

Cartesian stance in philosophy cannot in principle put the Dasein of man into question at all; for it would thereby destroy itself at the outset in its most proper intention.

It is, at most, a scientifically critical but not a philosophically critical stance.

Philosophy is the opposite of all comfort and assurance.

Probability is merely the conceptual counterpart of a presupposed absolute certainty.

Everything that belongs to the existence of Dasein belongs just as essentially to the truth of philosophy.

to be borne by the inner substance of man.

It deals with the whole and it grips existence through and through.

No concept of the whole without the comprehending of philosophizing existence.