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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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