Dwelling Is Not Primarily Inhabiting But Taking

The Mathematical Is That Evident Aspect Of Things Within Which We Are Always Already Moving And According To Which We Experience Them As Things At All, And As Such Things. The Mathematical Is This Fundamental Position We Take Toward Things By Which We Take Up Things As Already Given To Us, And As They Must And Should Be Given. Therefore, The Mathematical Is The Fundamental Presupposition Of The Knowledge Of Things.

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 Human Being Is Not The Lord Of Beings, But The Shepherd Of Being.

I See The Situation Of Man In The World Of Planetary Technicity Not As An Inexitricable And Inescapable Destiny, But I See The Task Of Thought Precisely In This, That Within Its Own Limits It Helps Man As Such Achieve A Satisfactory Relationship To The Essence Of Technicity. National Socialism Did Indeed Go In This Direction. Those People, However, Were Far Too Poorly Equipped For Thought To Arrive At A Really Explicit Relationship To What Is Happening Today And Has Been Underway For The Past 300 Years.

The Domination Of The Public Way In Which Things Have Been Interpreted Has Already Decided Upon Even The Possibilities Of Being Attuned, That Is, About The Basic Way In Which Da-sein Lets Itself Be Affected By The World. The They Prescribes That Attunement, It Determines What And How One "sees.