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

But what is great can only begin great.

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.

The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

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

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

To dwell is to garden.