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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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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
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Oneself Properly 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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking

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