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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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