Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Only a god can save us.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth