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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREverything 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Only a god can save us.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Language is the house of Being.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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