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

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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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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