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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way 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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking

Where are we really going? Always home.

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