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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe 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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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