A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

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

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

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

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.

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

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.