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When we say "Being," it means "Being of beings." When we say "beings," it means "beings in respect to Being." We are always speaking within the duality. The duality is always a prior datum, for Parmenides as much as for Plato, Kant as much as Nietzsche.

Thinking means: letting-lie-before-us and so taking--if also: beings in being. Thinking so structured pervades the foundation of metaphysics, the duality of beings and Being. Such thinking develops its various successive positions on this foundation, and determines the fundamental positions of metaphysics.

When we take to heart what lies before us, we take it as it is lying. By taking to heart and mind, we gather and focus ourselves on what lies before us, and gather what we have taken to heart.

Authentic divination is the mode in which essentials come to us and so come to mind, in order that we may keep them in mind. This kind of divination is not the outer court before the gates of knowledge. It is the great Hall where everything that can be known is keep, concealed.

To lay and to tell relate in the same mode to the same, in the mode of letting-appear. Telling turns out to be a laying

To pay heed to what the words say is particularly difficult for us moderns, because we find it hard to detach from the "at first" of what is common; and if we succeed for once, we relapse all too easily.

The space of freedom from revenge is where Nietzsche sees the Superman's essential nature.

We forget too easily that a thinker is more essentially effective where he is opposed than when he finds agreement.

This one-track thinking, which is becoming ever more widespread in various shapes, is one of those unsuspected and inconspicuous forms, mentioned earlier, in which the essence of technology assumes dominion -- because that essence wills and therefore needs absolute univocity.

To do so would be to debase he poetic word. Its statement rests on its own truth. This truth is called beauty. Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent.