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

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
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 get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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

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