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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
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 best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun

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