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To dwell is to garden.
Only a god can save us.
Being is an issue for one.
True time is four-dimensional.
Being is only Being for Dasein.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
How one encounters reality is a choice.
But what is great can only begin great.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors
Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.