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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
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
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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