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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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