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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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