truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

there” – and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one’s breath – and yet it is nowhere.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

But what is great can only begin great.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to...

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

The term ‘Being’ does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the ‘universality’ of Being ‘transcends’ any universality of genus.

Being’ cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that...

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible...

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Prestare attenzione a ciò che con-viene al dire pensante non implica solo che noi ogni volta meditiamo su che cosa dire dell’essere e su come dirlo. Resta altrettanto essenziale riflettere se si possa dire ciò...

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for...