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 are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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Only a god can save us.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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