Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

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

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

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

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.