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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.

Martin Heidegger

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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy

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