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

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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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic

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

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