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

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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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

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