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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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