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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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