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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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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
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy

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