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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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 never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

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