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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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 is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
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
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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