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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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