But Every Historical Statement And

The Senses Do Not Enable Us To Cognize Any Entity In Its Being; They Merely Serve To Announce The Ways In Which 'external' Things Within-the-world Are Useful Or Harmful For Human Creatures Encumbered With Bodies....they Tell Us Nothing About Entities In Their Being.

The Threat To Man Does Not Come In The First Instance From The Potentially Lethal Machines And Apparatus Of Technology. The Actual Threat Has Already Affected Man In His Essence. The Rule Of Enframing Threatens Man With The Possibility That It Could Be Denied To Him To Enter Into A More Original Revealing And Hence To Experience The Call Of A More Primal Truth

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.

What Is Peddled About Nowadays As Philosophy, Especially That Of N.s. [national Socialism], But Has Nothing To Do With The Inner Truth And Greatness Of That Movement [namely The Encounter Between Global Technology And Modern Humanity] Is Nothing But Fishing In That Troubled Sea Of Values And Totalities.

A Giving Which Gives Only Its Gift, But In The Giving Holds Itself Back And Withdraws, Such A Giving We Call Sending.