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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason

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