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

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

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.

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

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.