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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
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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 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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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

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