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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
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
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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