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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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