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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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

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