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.

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

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

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

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.