To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

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

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

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

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.

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

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