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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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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
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe 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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe

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