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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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 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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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