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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True

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