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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

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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 most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
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

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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