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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy

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