The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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