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

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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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection

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