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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself

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