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

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

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 poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

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

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