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

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
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
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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

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