Along with losing the gods, we have lost the world; the world must first be [seyn] erected in order to create space for the gods in this work; yet such an opening of the world cannot proceed from, or be carried out by, the currently extant humanity — instead, it can be accomplished only if what basically grounds and disposes the opening of the world is itself acquired — for Da-sein and for the restoration of humanity to Da-sein.
Martin Heidegger, Überlegungen IV/8.











