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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

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