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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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 know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch

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