Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

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So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

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If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

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