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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.

Martin Heidegger

All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Beautiful Beginning Myself
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion

When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.

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