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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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