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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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 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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
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 are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy

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