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

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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick

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

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