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Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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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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There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world. Happiness and Misfortune stand in continual balance. Every Misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts through with the greater force.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the aether. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.

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All Mathematics is, properly speaking, an equation on a great scale for the other sciences.

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