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  1. Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuo…
  2. The task of conducting the individual mind from its unscientific standpoint to that of science had to be taken in its general sense; we had…
  3. The great thing however is, in the show of the temporal and the transient to recognize the substance which is immanent and the eternal whic…
  4. In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to …
  5. Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that br…
  6. The goal to be reached is the mind's insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the …
  7. The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a pla…
  8. A party first truly shows itself to have won the victory when it breaks up into two parties: for so it proves that it contains in itself th…

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