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

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A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
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
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
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth

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

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