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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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 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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity

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