The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

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

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.