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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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