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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Every Inscribe Letter Like Moemmet Sky Star Themselves
As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Appear Eye Give Horizon Itself Our Own Rise Sight Sun Time Wait
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Become Identical Object One Se Seen Such Vision
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Beautiful Creator Find Into Look Made State Withdraw Yet Yourself
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty Itself Light Over Play Rather Symmetry Thing
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
Become vision itself.
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Become Itself Vison
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly

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