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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

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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 become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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 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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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch

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