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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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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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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 touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role

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

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