" It is indeed in no way settled that the “self” is ever determinable by means of a representation of the ego. Instead, it must be acknowledged that selfhood first arises out of the grounding of Da-sein, a grounding that is carried out as an appropriation of the belonging to the call. Accordingly, the openness and grounding of the self arise out of, and as, the truth of beyng "

― Martin Heidegger , Contributions to Philosophy (from Enowning)