Being vs. Accomplishing - Heidegger

If the human being accomplishes only what he 'is' and yet brings about great accomplishments, 'is' he then not great?  Certainly - measured against the greatness of what can be accomplished, but not in relation to the eminence of being.  The great accomplishments could precisely become a proof of the smallness of being.  Perhaps humans must be very small and entirely alien from their essence (the preservation of the truth of beyng) in order to carry out 'enormous accomplishments' and take from them the basic measure for everything, namely, 'unprecedented magnitude.'


-Gesamtausgabe v. 96