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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

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word

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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