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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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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