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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.

Martin Heidegger

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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Beautiful Beginning Myself
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing

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