At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? We go somewhere where we are not wanted and where we don't want to go. What else is conventional life? Passivity when we want to be active. So many hours spent every day in passively doing what conventional life tells us, when we would so gladly be at work. And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as wh…

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. The governes…

The 'dreams of youth' have become a proverb. That organisations, early rich, fall far short of their promise has been repeated to satiety. But is it extraordin…

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has alway…