Tidbits from Heidegger

"If faith does not continually expose itself to the possibility of unfaith, it is not faith but a convenience. It becomes an agreement with oneself to adhere in the future to a doctrine as something that has somehow been handed down." (p.8)

"Russian and America [i.e. communism and capitalism] seen metaphysically, are both the same: the same hopeless frenzy of unchained technology and of the rootless organization of the average man. When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously 'experience' an assasination attempt against a king in France and symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of th epeople; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph, then yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the question: what for? -- where to? -- and what next?"
(And lets all keep in mind that this was originally a lecture delivered in 1935; to say this was prescient is putting it mildly, I think).

Both from philosopher Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics. (Nota Bene 2000).