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

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.

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