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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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