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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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

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