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To philosophize means to make vivid.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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 artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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

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