I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy 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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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