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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
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
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

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