We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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