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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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

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