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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
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

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