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To philosophize means to make vivid.

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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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly 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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root

To philosophize means to make vivid.

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