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A terrible aping of Hölderlin’s “Hymns” is entering into the semblant poetry of today—without having in itself even the trace of a reason for it or a right.
80
The thoughtful steadfastness in the essential word of beyng. (The “system”!)
81
The system of questions which are moved by need—what is most question- worthy is beyng; it is most worthy because it possesses the highest rank of all beings and in all beings.
Beyng is the aether in which mankind breathes.
Beyng as (event).
82
God is gone; things are used up; knowledge is in ruins; action has become blind.
In short: beyng is forgotten—and a semblance of beings is raging or is fleeing into what was hitherto.
83
The forgottenness of beyng is to be overcome though an internalized recollection, which must be an externalization into the broadest and deepest “there”: as Da-sein.
84
But this overcoming not solely through the question of beyng—rather, from the fact that this questioning concerns the essential truth of beyng—concerns that origin which is, and alone can be, the pre-playing of beyng in our all-knowing | godlessness: art—which means: knowledge of the necessity of art.
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Fully at the end, philosophy remains only if its end becomes and remains what its beginning is: the question of the truth of beyng.