We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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