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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
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
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
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy

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