Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

The only creative thought one can have in an institution is how to get out.

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calcula…

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat th…

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has alway…