" — and for Heidegger humanity has become monstrous. Man is the terrible one: deinos in Greek (the word also featuring in the etymology of ‘dinosaur’, or ‘terrible lizard’). This was the word that Sophocles had used when he wrote his chorus about the strange or uncanny quality unique to man. "

― Sarah Bakewell , At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails