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

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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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

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

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