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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

The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
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
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy

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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