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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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