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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

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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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play

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