The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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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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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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