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A God-intoxicated man.

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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization

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