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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

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
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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God Night Poet Sing Time World
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall

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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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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