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Language is a musical instrument of ideas. The poet, rhetorician, and philosopher play and compose grammatically.
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Language is a musical instrument of ideas. The poet, rhetorician, and philosopher play and compose grammatically.
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Love is the final purpose of world history — the unum of the universe.
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One cannot avoid taking fright when one looks into depths of the spirit. Profundity and the will etc. know no bounds.
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An absolute drive toward perfection and completeness is an illness, as soon as it shows itself to be destructive and averse toward the imperfect, the incomplete.
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To contemplate an object completely means to make it the center of my activity.
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Philosophy is antihistorical from the ground up. It moves from the world of the future and the necessary to the real. It is the study of the general sense of divination. It explains the past from the future, whereas in history the contrary is the case. It considers everything in isolation, in the state of nature — unconnected.
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The poet is the inventor of symptoms a priori. Since words belong to symptoms, language is a poetic invention — and all revelations and phenomena, as symptomatic systems — are poetic in origin.
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The world of the fairy tale is the absolutely opposite world to the world of truth (history) — and just for this reason it is so absolutely similar to it — as chaos is to accomplished creation.
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