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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

Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence 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 possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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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Divine God Spiritual
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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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Change Ourselves Thinking
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song

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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