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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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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