Huh?

Continuing the new trend of short posts:

Dasein is not itself the basis of its Being, inasmuch as this basis first arises from its own projection; rather, as Being-its-Self, it is the Being of its basis.

--Heidegger, Being and Time
Just a taste of the sentences that you must continually try to get your head around while reading Being and Time. Surely a masterpiece of philosophy, but one that requires almost a new way of thinking in order to understand it.