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

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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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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