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 HEIDEGGERMere anxiety is the source of everything.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Nature has no history.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Only a god can save us.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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