A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

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.

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

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.