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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

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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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
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
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking

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