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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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