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

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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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