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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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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics

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