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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength

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