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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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