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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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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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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
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
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

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