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

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch

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