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

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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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

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

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