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 HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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