Volo ut sis

‘Amo: volo ut sis.’ (I love you: I want you to be)

Augustinus

“Ich will, dass Du seiest, was Du bist”.

“I want you to be what you are.”

Martin Heidegger in a letter to Hannah Arendt, 1925

Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, ca. 1925