all beings and thus the god. What is most necessary, accordingly, is that there are those who can prepare for this and out of the previous extended lostness can liberate the question of being to its originariness and for that purpose can bring all great accomplishments back to their essentiality and restore the humans of the future. For this, however, the decisiveness of the repudiation of everything halfway and leveled off must also be hard enough and must not shirk from intensity and rage, due to a false concern with a long-since-empty “superiority” in every usual “treatment” of the “spiritual.”
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Perhaps even only my errors still have an impelling power in an age overloaded with correct things and for the longest time lacking in truth.
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Every history creates itself or abandons itself to its historiology. The question can be asked: is a history all the more unhistoriological, the more historical it is, and all the more historiological, the more unhistorical it is?
That means: the less a history reaches down into the grounding of beyng and into an originary configuration of the human being in the midst of beings, all the more prevalent, loud, and comprehensive will historiology be. But the exaggeration of the historiological is the self-promulgation and self-commendation of a present moment which can be determined by the fact that altogether everything is directed merely toward a kind of objectification and no longer toward the grounding of beyng—because beyng has already abandoned all beings and relegated them to themselves—to their machinational objectification.
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Today’s “philosophy,” in case this name may be misapplied to the following, is:
1. An erudite and pedantic elaboration of the past in the direction of a progress that corrects and improves everything.
2. Feeble romanticism of an “ideology” of empire [Reichs-“ideologie”] in the manner of George, mixed with a half-understood Nietzschean humanism.
3. Unrestrained party-scholasticism in many variations, unrestrained but tactically prudent and completely living on the past; there are here, as formerly there were Thomists (to be sure, without Thomas)