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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe

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