 If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. |
| We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. |
| Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. |
| To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. |
| When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. |
| The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. |
| The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. |
| Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. |
| Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. |
| Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. |
