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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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