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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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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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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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