The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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 thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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