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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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