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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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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
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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

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