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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root

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