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.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

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

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?

What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.