The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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