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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand

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