“Only he who already understands can listen.”

Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.

Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

Nature has no history.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

But what is great can only begin great.

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

They told me to quit, I don’t listen to what I’m told.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Don’t listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.