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.

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

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

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.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.