Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass.
Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
Only a god can save us.
The small are always dependent on the great; they are “small” precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other “greats” and who can transform it in an original manner.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.