Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man..

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes..

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home..

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learn….

Transcendence constitutes selfhood..

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy..

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant..

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need t….

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one..

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are..

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins..

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment..

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny..

How one encounters reality is a choice..

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking..

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only….

Questioning is the piety of thought..

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest..

Everyone is the other and no one is himself..

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possib….