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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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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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Beautiful Beginning Myself
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk

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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