Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

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

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.