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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work

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