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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Nature has no history.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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