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Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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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Beautiful Beginning Myself
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet

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