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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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

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