Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

The flesh is at the heart of the world.