If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands interest?
Why do we say that time passes away, when we do not say with just as much emphasis that it arises?
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.