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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring

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