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

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure

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