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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
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
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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