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

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How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within ...more

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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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...more

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--th...more

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Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner s...more