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.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

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

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.