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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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

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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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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