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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time

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