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  1. The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in …
  2. The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
  3. The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is t…
  4. The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars…
  5. The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realised makes all movements full of meaning and joy. B…
  6. The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infi…
  7. The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
  8. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost …

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