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

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
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

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