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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing

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