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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic

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