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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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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
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure

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