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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

We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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

Beautiful Beginning Myself
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

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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