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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

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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
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
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
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
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

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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