The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

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 learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

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

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.