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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
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
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role

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