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 HEIDEGGERWhy is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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Only a god can save us.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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