Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

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.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.