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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning

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