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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River

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