Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

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

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.