There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.

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

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.