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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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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.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious

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