Is The Earth In Our Head? Or

The Relationship Between Man And Space Is None Other Than Dwelling, Strictly Thought And Spoken.

Man Acts As Though He Were The Shaper And Master Of Language, While In Fact Language Remains The Master Of Man.

And So Man, As Existing Transcendence Abounding In And Surpassing Toward Possibilities, Is A Creature Of Distance. Only Through The Primordial Distances He Establishes Toward All Being In His Transcendence Does A True Nearness To Things Flourish In Him.

Celebration... Is Self Restraint, Is Attentiveness, Is Questioning, Is Meditating, Is Awaiting, Is The Step Over Into The More Wakeful Glimpse Of The Wonder - The Wonder That A World Is Worlding Around Us At All, That There Are Beings Rather Than Nothing, That Things Are And We Ourselves Are In Their Midst, That We Ourselves Are And Yet Barely Know Who We Are, And Barely Know That We Do Not Know All This.

Everywhere We Remain Unfree And Chained To Technology, Whether We Passionately Affirm Or Deny It. But We Are Delivered Over To It In The Worst Possible Way When We Regard It As Something Neutral; For This Conception Of It, To Which Today We Particularly Like To Do Homage, Makes Us Utterly Blind To The Essence Of Technology.