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

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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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 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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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

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