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

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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 true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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 can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World

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

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