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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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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom

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