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To philosophize means to make vivid.

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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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

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