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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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