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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper 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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman

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