“The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.”

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.

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.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.