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 HEIDEGGERMan 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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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To dwell is to garden.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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