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

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength

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

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