«In its factual being Da-sein always is as and what it already was. Whether explicitly or not, it is its past. It is its own past not only in such a way that its past, as it were, pushes itself along behind it, and that it possesses what is past as a property that is still objectively present ant at times has an effect on it.
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Its own past -and that always means that of its generation- does not follow after Da-sein but rather always already goes ahead of it.» Heidegger - Being and Time
