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 HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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 fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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