Spiegel: You have just said that philosophy and the individual would be able to do nothing but…
Heidegger: … but make ready for this readiness of holding oneself open for the arrival, or for the absence of god. Even the experience of this absence is not nothing, but a liberation of man from what in Being and Time I call "fallenness" upon beings. Making ourselves ready for the aforementionned readiness involves reflecting on what in our day… is.

Der Spiegel, 1966