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Into the life of no man has the mystery of the world entered so much. So familiarly, might I say. The mystery of the world finds not alone my thought, but my feeling also.

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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility
We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old
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