We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.