The future of the West in the age of the consummation of modernity: an unconditional super-Americanism with Prussian strictness. #Heidegger

Insofar as technology and communism assault the West out of the East, in truth the West is assaulting the West in an uncanny self-annihilation of its own powers and intentions. Besides its public aspect, history always also has its concealed one. #Heidegger

Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in shortness of distance. #Heidegger

[K]now that the warrior was more essential than the writer ever could be. #Heidegger

It is not Russianism that will bring about the destruction of the earth but Americanism, not just the English but all of Europe has fallen prey to it as it represents modernity in its monstrosity. #Heidegger