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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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