“The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire”

“We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.”

“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.”

“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”

“Heidegger’s concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means ‘being-there’.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.”

“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”

“In order to live a meaningful life,humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These ‘answers’ do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be.”