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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

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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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Place Presence Technology Truth
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness

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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