“Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.”

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.

The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.

On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.

Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It’s an act of faith. It’s saying that even though I can’t see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.