We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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