Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral … - Novalis

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A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

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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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To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

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Where are we really going? Always home.

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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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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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Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

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James A. Baldwin

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

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Michael Franti

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

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R. D. Laing

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

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