“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.”

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.

Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Poetically dwells man upon this earth.

As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.

The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.