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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.

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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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 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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.

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