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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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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
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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 best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy

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