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 HEIDEGGERBeauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Language is the house of Being.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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