Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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 are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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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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