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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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 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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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