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 HEIDEGGERPoetically dwells man upon this earth.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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To dwell is to garden.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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