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.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

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.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.