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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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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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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
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
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
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

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

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