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 HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Nature has no history.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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