“Who accomplishes the challenging setting-upon through which what we call the real is revealed as standing-reserve? Obviously, man. To what extent is man capable of such a revealing? Man can indeed conceive, fashion, and carry through this or that in one way or another. But man does not have control over unconcealment itself, in which at any given time the real shows itself or withdraws. The fact that the real has been showing itself in the light of Ideas ever since the time of Plato, Plato did not bring about. The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.” TruthDestinyTechnologyManRevealingUnconcealmentChallenging ForthSetting UponStanding Reserve Book:The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays Source: The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
“In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, perhaps not even in terms of the character of signification. Language is the clearing-concealing advent of Being itself.” LanguageBeingClearingConcealmentEreignisUnconcealment Book:Basic Writings Source: Basic Writings