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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves 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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