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

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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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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