The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

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

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

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

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

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

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 then will I be free to become myself.