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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, 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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Time at first — in reality before that "first" was produced by desire of succession — Time lay, though not yet as Time, in the Authentic Existent together with the Cosmos itself; the Cosmos also was merged in the Authentic and motionless within it.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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On the assumption that all happens by Cause, it is easy to discover the nearest determinants of any particular act or state to trace it plainly to them.
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Objects of sense are not unlimited and therefore the Number applying to them cannot be so. Nor is an enumerator able to number to infinity; though we double, multiply over and over again, we still end with a finite number...
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Geometry [is] the science of the Intellectual entities...
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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Died:
270
(aged 67)
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