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

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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning

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