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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent

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