Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

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.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.