Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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 song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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