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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
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
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
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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