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.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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.