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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 most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking

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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