“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.”

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

“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.”

“In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.”

“The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.”

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”