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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

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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
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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