A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

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.

Only a god can save us.

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.