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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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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic

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