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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic

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