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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth

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