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.

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.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

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

But what is great can only begin great.