Longing Is The Agony Of The Nearness

What Seems Natural To Us Is Probably Just Something Familiar In A Long Tradition That Has Forgotten The Unfamiliar Source From Which It Arose. And Yet This Unfamiliar Source Once Struck Man As Strange And Caused Him To Think And To Wonder.

Dwelling Is Not Primarily Inhabiting But Taking Care Of And Creating That Space Within Which Something Comes Into Its Own And Flourishes.

As The Ego Cogito, Subjectivity Is The Consciousness That Represents Something, Relates This Representation Back To Itself, And So Gathers With Itself.

Teaching Is More Difficult Than Learning Because What Teaching Calls For Is This: To Let Learn. The Real Teacher, In Fact, Lets Nothing Else Be Learned Than Learning. His Conduct, Therefore, Often Produces The Impression That We Properly Learn Nothing From Him, If By "learning" We Now Suddenly Understand Merely The Procurement Of Useful Information.

The Relationship Between Man And Space Is None Other Than Dwelling, Strictly Thought And Spoken.