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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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

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