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

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

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

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

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.

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