A man’s first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
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.
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today’s literature is, for instance, largely destructive.
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.
Being is only Being for Dasein.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
To dwell is to garden.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself – as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light – so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.