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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work

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