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 HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Nature has no history.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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