“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

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.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

A fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a fool but. A Genius can become a fool when he understands he is a Genius.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.