We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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