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

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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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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 children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

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