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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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