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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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