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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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

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