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

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

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