We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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