Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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