As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
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We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
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