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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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 true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason

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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