[Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was What is being? What is it for something to be? He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are in the world, in direct contact with our surroundings.

Well, vamp on to Marlott, will 'ee, and order that carriage, and maybe I'll drive round and inspect the club.

You really need to stick up for yourself against that bully.

I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.