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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work

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