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In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. (Martin Heidegger)
The word "art” does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank. View quote
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The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established. View quote
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks. View quote
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I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years. View quote
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say. View quote
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment. View quote
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed. View quote
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Only a god can save us. View quote
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Being is only Being for Dasein. View quote
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To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. (Martin Heidegger)
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. View quote
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What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. View quote
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Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. View quote
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. View quote
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What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder. View quote
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. View quote
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This is precisely what is decisive in Nietzsche's conception of art, that he sees it in its essential entirety in terms of the artist; this he does consciously and in explicit opposition to that conception of art which represents it in terms of those who "enjoy” and "experience” it. That is a guiding principle of Nietzsche's teaching on art: art must be grasped in terms of creators and producers, not recipients. Nietzsche expresses it unequivocally in the following words (WM, 811): "Our aesthetics heretofore has been a woman's aesthetics, inasmuch as only the recipients of art have formulated their experiences of ‘what is beautiful.' In all philosophy to date the artist is missing.” Philosophy of art means "aesthetics” for Nietzsche too-but masculine aesthetics, not feminine aesthetics. The question of art is the question of the artist as the productive, creative one; his experiences of what is beautiful must provide the standard. View quote
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To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.” (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: "That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being. View quote
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In contrast to "Blessed are they who do not see and still believe,” he speaks of "seeing and still not believing.”. View quote
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For anyone who at the end of Western philosophy can and must still question philosophically, the decisive question is no longer merely "What basic character do beings manifest?” or "How may the being of beings be characterized?” but "What is this ‘being' itself?” The decisive question is that of "the meaning of being,” not merely that of the being of beings. (Martin Heidegger)
Who is to determine what the perfect is? It could only be those who are themselves perfect and who therefore know what it means. Here yawns the abyss of that circularity in which the whole of human Dasein moves. What health is, only the healthy can say. Yet healthfulness is measured according to the essential starting point of health. What truth is, only one who is truthful can discern; but the one who is truthful is determined according to the essential starting point of truth. View quote
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The grandeur of man is measured according to what he seeks and according to the urgency by which he remains a seeker. View quote
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. View quote
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Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question. View quote
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