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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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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