Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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