"It is not a question of going into oneself or out into the world. It is rather a condition of fluency that's in and out." (John Cage, Silence)
“There is much in being that man cannot master. There is but little that comes to be known, what is known remains inexact, what is mastered insecure. What is, is never of our making or even merely the product of our minds, as it might all too easily seem. When we contemplate this whole as one, then we apprehended, so it appears, all that is – though we grasp it crudely enough...
And yet – beyond what is, not away from it, but before it, there is still something else that happens. In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting. Though of in reference to what is, to beings, this clearing is in a greater degree than are beings. This open center is therefore not surrounded by what is: rather, the lighting center itself encircles all that is, like the Nothing which we scarcely know...
Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings the we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are…
Truth in its nature, is un-truth…
“The nature of truth is, in itself, the primal conflict in which that open center is won within which what is, stands, and from which it sets itself back into itself.”
(Martin Heidegger, On the Origin of the Work of Art)
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"Something might be true by being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
(Nietzsche)
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