Being is only Being for Dasein.

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 should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

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

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options