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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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root

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