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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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 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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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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