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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth

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