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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
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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

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