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Where are we really going? Always home.

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

Where are we really going? Always home.

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