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

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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
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 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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition

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

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