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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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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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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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