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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
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
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role

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