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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work

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