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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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