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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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 bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
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 the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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