We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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