“he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”

“The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.”

“But what is great can only begin great.”

“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.”

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.”

“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.”