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Where are we really going? Always home.

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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing

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