The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

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

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

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.

The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.