Quotes About Revelation

London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.

Terror, perhaps, is always a confession of illegitimacy.

Das Nichts nichtet

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. 'To set' means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.

But "nowhere" does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already "there" - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one's breath - and yet it is nowhere.

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins. In ihrer Behausung wohnt der Mensch. Die Denkenden und Dichtenden sind die Wächter dieser Behausung. Ihr Wachen ist das Vollbringen der Offenbarkeit des Seins, insofern sie diese durch ihr Sagen zur Sprache bringen und in der Sprache aufbewahren.

Ceea-ce-se-situeaza-în-sine-însusi devine, din clipa în care este considerat dinspre privitor, ceea-ce-se-în-fatiseaza, ceea ce se ofera în aspectul sau exterior.

The moving force in Showing of Saying is Owning. It is what brings all present and absent beings each into their own, from where they show themselves in what they are, and where they abide according to their kind. This owning which brings them there, and which moves Saying as Showing in its showing we call Appropriation. It yields the opening of the clearing in which present beings can persist and from which absent beings can depart while keeping their persistence in the withdrawal.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names "the gods", can be heard.

When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.

If a ????? as ????????? is to be true, its Being-true is ????????? in the manner of ????????????—of taking entities out of their hiddenness and letting them be seen in their unhiddenness (their uncoveredness).

The truth of beyng is the beyng of truth—said in this way, it sounds like an artificial and forced reversal and, at most, like a seduction to a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by "decision.

Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.

El tiempo deberá ser sacado a la luz y deberá ser concebido genuinamente como el horizonte de toda comprensión del ser y de todo modo de interpretarlo (pag. 28)

l'??????? és l'esguardar de l'ésser endins de l'obert que ell mateix, i en tant que ell mateix, ha il·luminat, i que és obert per a l'il·latent de tot aparèixer.»

If I was summoned by faith, I'd close down my workshop ... Philosophy deals only with that thought which man can procure from his own means: as soon as it is summoned by Revelation, philosophy ceases.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

André Malraux had once asked an elderly priest what he had learned of the human race after a lifetime of hearing confessions, and the priest had replied, "That there are no grown-ups.

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

To say "I am going to church" both reveals and promotes bad theology.

Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this. Ah, never like this.

But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.