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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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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure

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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