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

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
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
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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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