Martin Buber

Metaphysics thinks Existence as such, in general. Metaphysics thinks Existence as such, that is, in the Whole. Metaphysics thinks the Being of Existence in the fathoming unity of the greatest generality, that is, the universal equivalence, as well as in the understanding unity of totality, which is highest above all els

The existant which we must analyze,” writes Heidegger, “is our self. The being of this existant is mine.”1

Thus, the idea of man can be only the sum of the established facts which it allows us to unite.

All the same, the psychologist grants that man has emotions because experience teaches him so.

he thing which differentiates every inquiry about man from other types of rigorous questions is precisely the privileged fact that human reality is ourselves.

They are, in their essential structure, man’s reactions against the world.

example, the physiological modifications which correspond to anger differ only in intensity from those which correspond to joy (slightly accelerated respiratory rhythm, slight increase in muscular tonicity, extension of bio-chemical changes, arterial tension, etc.), yet anger is not more intense joy; it is something else, at least insofar as it presents itself to consciousness

The idiot who is angry is not “ultra joyful.

Something else: in effect, even if emotion perceived objectively presents itself as a physiological disorder, insofar as it is a fact it is not at all a disorder or an utter chaos. It has a meaning; it signifies something.

phenomenon of derivation is nothing more than a change of path for freed nervous energy.