We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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