The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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 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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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 he who already understands can listen.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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