"The possible ranks higher than the actual."

"He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors."

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

"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 threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatuses of technology. The actual threat has already afflicted man in its essence."

"Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness."

"To make of 'the truth' a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a 'personality.'"

"Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today."

"To dwell is to garden."

"The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species."

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

"We never come to thoughts. They come to us."

"Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment."

"Dasein exists as an entity for which, in its Being, that Being is itself an issue."

"This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts."

"Language is the house of Being."

"Only a god can save us."

"He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment."

"In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work."

"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it."