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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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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity

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