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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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