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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
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
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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