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 HEIDEGGERTell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Nature has no history.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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