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"“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”"
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"“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”"
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"“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”"
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"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."
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"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other."
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"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment."
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"Nature is a petrified magic city."
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"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."
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"A God-intoxicated man."
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"Not only England but every Englishman is an island."
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"Character is perfectly educated will."
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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 acting against one's conviction."
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"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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"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 me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism."
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"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
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"Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home."
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