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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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