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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand

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