The distracted person, too, can form habits.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.