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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective 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
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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 on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring

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