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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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 philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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