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

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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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