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

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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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

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