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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

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