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Where children are, there is the golden age.

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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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