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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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