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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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