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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe never come to thoughts. They come to us.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Language is the house 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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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