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 HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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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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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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