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

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You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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 are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World

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

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