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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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