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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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

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