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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point

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